Byrd v. Ark. Dep't of Human Servs. & Minor Children

Cody Byrd appeals the Randolph County Circuit Court's order terminating his parental rights to his two children. We affirm.

The Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) exercised an emergency hold on Byrd's two children, eighteen-month-old A.B.1 and seven-month-old A.B.2, on June 5, 2017, following a motor-vehicle accident that killed their mother. Byrd was driving at the time of the accident and admitted that he had been drinking whiskey. Moreover, evidence indicated that he had disabled an interlock device that had been installed on his vehicle based on a prior DWI conviction.

On May 21,…