Hooks v. Baldwin County Department of Family & Children Services

Quillian, Chief Judge.

This is the appeal of a mother from the termination of her parental rights to her daughter.

The termination hearing was held in May 1981. At that time appellant was 37 years old, had never married, and also had an 18-year-old retarded daughter who was a patient at Central State Hospital. The child in question was a three-and-a-half-year-old girl who had lived with her mother for the first 16 months of her life until February 1979 when appellee DFCS obtained custody of her. Held:

1. Appellant asserts that the evidence is insufficient to support the termination of her…