Legal Opinion
In re M.L.D.
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided June 8, 2005PublishedCited by 124 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
OPINION
2Opinion of the Court · FarmerDavid R. Farmer, J.
in which W. FRANK CRAWFORD, P.J., W.S. and HOLLY M. KIRBY, J., joined.
Petitioners, Mother and her husband, brought a petition to terminate Father’s parental rights on the grounds of abandonment. The trial court found that clear and convincing evidence did not support a finding a willful abandonment and dismissed the petition. We affirm.
This is a parental rights termination case. In April 2003, J.M.T. (“Mother”), the natural mother of M.L.D., a minor child born June 1998 in Knoxville, and her husband, D.C.T (“Husband;” collectively, “Petitioners”) filed a petition in the Chancery Court…
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