Franco v. State, Department of Pensions & Security

WRIGHT, Presiding Judge.

This is a termination of parental rights case.

On November 22, 1979, Mana Dianne Franco and her minor son, Michael, moved from California to Tallapoosa County, Alabama to live with Ms. Franco’s mother, Marilyn Frances Shaw. Ms. Franco, who had been divorced since 1977, was pregnant with another child, a daughter, April, who was born on April 3, 1980.

In January 1980, the Tallapoosa County Department of Pensions and Security (DPS) received a child abuse and neglect alert from the State of California concerning Ms. Franco’s loss of parental rights over another child,…