Shover v. Department of Human Resources

Birdsong, Judge.

Termination of parental rights. At a hearing before the Juvenile Court of Fulton County, the court concluded that the child in question had been “virtually” abandoned even though the court did not find “legal” abandonment. The mother’s transient habits, failure to provide for necessaries, failure to visit the child, the residence of the mother in a house trailer with eight people, the failure or inability of the mother to obtain some type of employment other than baby care and housekeeping, when considered all together convinced the court that the infant was deprived and…