Porter v. Arkansas Department of Health & Human Services

Robert L. Brown, Justice.

Appellant Mark Porter appeals the circuit court’s order adjudicating Porter’s three teenage children, D.P., S.P., and J.P., who are appellees, to be dependent-neglected, and the circuit court’s order voiding the marriage of his daughter, D.P.

On August 22, 2007, Porter and Diana Rolen, Porter’s ex-wife and the mother of D.P., J.P., and S.P., appeared in juvenile court for a Family in Need of Services (“FINS”) hearing. The FINS hearing was in response to the alleged truancy of their two minor daughters, D.P., age sixteen, and S.P., age twelve. At the hearing, the…