Jamie v. State Department of Pensions & Security

WRIGHT, Presiding Judge.

This is a case of termination of parental rights. The only issue on appeal is whether there was clear and convincing evidence before the trial court to support its order terminating the parental rights of Jamie and Earl Hickman.

On November 3, 1983, the Tallapoosa County Department of Pensions and Secur*602ity (DPS) received a complaint from Russell Hospital indicating that Earl Hickman, the father of a premature baby girl, was threatening to remove the child from the hospital and that the hospital believed that the baby’s life would be endangered. A temporary verbal…