Legal Opinion
Williams v. Arkansas Department of Human Services
Court of Appeals of Arkansas
Decided March 11, 2015No. CV-14-982PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtM. Michael Kinard, Judge
h Charles Williams appeals from an order terminating his parental rights to his five-month-old daughter, E.W. He challenges the trial court’s finding that termination was in the child’s best interest. He also argues that the court erred in proceeding with termination because of alleged procedural defects or omissions earlier in the dependency-neglect case. We affirm.
The Arkansas Department of Human Services (ADHS) took emergency custody of E.W. on the day that she was born in February 2014 because her mother, Emma Mickles, was then an inmate in the Arkansas Department of Correction. Ex parte…
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