Jackson v. Arkansas Department of Human Services

PHILLIP T. WHITEAKER, Judge.

|, Jaron Jackson appeals from a Washington County Circuit Court order terminating his parental rights to his six-year-old son, A.J.1 His sole challenge to the termination is that there was insufficient evidence of any ground to support the termination. We reverse.

Christina South is the mother of two children, A.J. and J.S. On August 31, 2011, the Department of Human Services (DHS) exercised an emergency seventy-two-hour hold on A.J. and his younger half-sister, J.S., when South tested positive for illegal substances after giving birth to J.S.

At the initiation of…