Patty v. Department of Human Resources

Deen, Chief Judge.

On December 9, 1977, the Georgia Department of Human Resources acting through the Clayton County Department of Family & Children Services brought a petition in the Juvenile Court of Clayton County for the termination of Paula Patty’s parental rights in her two-year-old child. After a hearing on May 25,1978, the court found that the child was deprived and in need of continued foster care, but continued the case for three months "to give the mother an opportunity to show that she could establish a stable environment, and to present positive evidence . . . of her ability to…