Perry v. State Department of Human Resources

INGRAM, Judge.

The Juvenile Court of Madison County, following an ore tenus hearing, ordered the permanent termination of all parental rights of the mother and father of John Lewis Perry, Jr., age nine. Permanent legal custody was vested in the Alabama Department of Human Resources (department).

The father raises several issues by his appeal here, all of which essentially question whether there exists clear and convincing evidence to support the trial court’s decision to terminate the father’s parental rights. Among these include the father’s contentions that the court failed to consider less…