B.H. v. Tuscaloosa County Department of Human Resources

B.H. (“the mother”) and M.H. (“the father”) adopted J.M.H., I.H., and A.H. (“the children”) in 2001. The mother and the father divorced in 2008. The divorce judgment entered by the Tuscaloosa Circuit Court (“the circuit court”) awarded the father sole custody of the children and ordered the mother not to pay child support because she and the father intended that the mother’s parental rights to the children would be terminated.2

The Tuscaloosa County Department of Human Resources (“DHR”) filed the present actions in the Tuscaloosa Juvenile Court (“the juvenile court”), seeking to declare the…