Sanders v. Kunkle

This is a termination of parental rights case.

After an ore tenus hearing the trial court terminated the parental rights of Deborah Kunkle Ogle and Samuel Ogle, a/k/a Samuel Sanders, in their five children. The court placed permanent legal custody of the children with their maternal grandparents, an aunt and uncle, and a great aunt. The father appeals. We affirm.

The dispositive issue on appeal is whether the trial court violated the incarcerated father's due process rights by refusing to order him to be brought from the prison for the hearing to terminate his parental rights.

The facts are not…