In the Interest of J. M. S. M.

Johnson, Chief Judge.

In order to terminate parental rights, a juvenile court must find clear and convincing evidence of present parental misconduct or inability, not merely evidence of past parental unfitness.1 The Cobb County Juvenile Court, in terminating the parental rights of the mother of J. M. S. M., relied on evidence that the mother is currently on felony probation, has an eighteen-year criminal record that includes numerous convictions and probation revocations, has abused cocaine and alcohol for over twenty years, does not have custody of her five other children and had her parental…