In re A.M.A.T.

STROUD, Judge.

Respondent-father appeals order terminating his parental rights. We conclude the trial court was not biased against respondent-father, but we reverse the order on the termination grounds of neglect and failure to pay child support, and we must remand for further findings of fact as the ground of abandonment.

I. Background

Petitioner-mother and respondent-father were residing together in New York when Susan1 was born in 2009. Soon after Susan's birth,2 Mother and Father moved to North Carolina, but in January 2010, Father returned to New York to serve a sentence for a criminal…