In re J.L.K.

ELMORE, Judge.

G.K. (respondent) appeals from an adjudication, announced orally in open court following a hearing on 21 August 2002 and subsequently reduced to a written order, signed, and filed on 19 November 2002, terminating his parental rights to his daughter, J.L.K. For the reasons stated herein, we affirm.

The record establishes the following: respondent and the petitioner herein, S.B., are the parents of J.L.K., who was born on 15 June 1997. By agreement between petitioner and respondent, J.L.K. has been in petitioner’s custody since shortly after her birth. At the time of J.L.K.’s…