L.B. v. Jasper County Juvenile Office

ROBERT S. BARNEY, Judge.

By their three count petition for adoption, Respondents, T.E.T. and L.S.T. (“Foster Parents”), seek to adopt N.L.B., a child born on December 18, 1998.1 Appellant L.B. (“Mother”) is the biological mother of N.L.B. Following a hearing by the Juvenile Court of Jasper County, Missouri (“juvenile court”), the juvenile court transferred custody of N.L.B. to Foster Parents for the purpose of adoption, and terminated the parental rights of Mother, the putative father, and the “unknown” father pursuant to Chapters 453 and 211.2 The juvenile court found three statutory grounds…