Blakeney v. McRee

¶43. Chancellors have the power to sign orders that completely and permanently remove the rights parents have with respect to their children. These orders terminating parental rights mean the natural parents no longer are considered by the law to be the parents. They even have no right to visit their children.

1144. The issue here is the level of importance we place on those parental rights which, by the way, both this Court and the. United States Supreme Court have held to be fundamental.7 Given that due process of law demands increasing procedural protections commensurate with the increasing…