State ex rel. L.D.

hThe Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services (“the Department”) appeals the juvenile court’s ruling that the Department failed to meet its burden of proving the grounds for termination of the parental rights of F.B., the father of L.M. For the following reasons, we reverse and render.

FACTS

V.M. (“the mother”) is the mother of L.D., born October 22, 2003, and L.M., born April 13, 2006. On March 18, 2008, the Department received a report that the mother, who had a long history of drug use, had left the children in the care of her sister, and the sister was no longer willing and/or…