H.D. v. J.L.D.

H.D., the natural mother of her eleven-year-old child, appeals the circuit court’s denial of her petition to terminate the parental rights of J.L.D., the child’s adoptive father. The mother argues the circuit court erred in denying the petition without a hearing. We agree and reverse.

*335In the petition, the mother alleged the adoptive father voluntarily executed an affidavit of surrender of his parental rights. The mother also alleged it would be in the child’s best interests to terminate the adoptive father’s parental rights for several reasons: from the time the mother and the adoptive father…