In re C.H.

In this appeal from a termination of parental rights (TPR), father argues that the Windsor Family Court erred in terminating his parental rights without a finding that he is an unfit parent. We determine that father failed to preserve his unfitness claim, and affirm the family court’s decision that termination is in the best interest of the children.

At the July 1999 TPR hearing, the family court found the following pertinent facts. Father was living with, but not married to, mother when the children, C.H. and M.H., were born. He was not living with mother or the children in September 1996,…