M.L.B. v. S.L.J.

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

BANKS, Presiding Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. This appeal deals with termination of parental rights. The chancery court found in this case that the mother of the children in question had allowed their relationship to erode due to neglect, unreasonable absence and failure to communicate with the children and termination of the mother’s parental rights was justified. The Court of Appeals, while acknowledging that the parent-child relationship in question was not a good one, found that the substantial burden of proof necessary for termination of parental rights had not been…