Legal Opinion
In Re Bernard T.
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided August 26, 2010No. W2008-02803-SC-R11-PTPublishedCited by 126 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR., J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court,
in which JANICE M. HOLDER, C.J., CORNELIA A. CLARK, GARY R. WADE, and SHARON G. LEE, JJ., joined.
This appeal involves a termination of rights proceeding under Tenn.Code Ann. § 36-1-113 (Supp.2009) with regard to five children between the ages of twelve and seventeen. The Tennessee Department of Children’s Services removed the children from the custody of their biological mother and the person thought to be their biological father and entered into a series of permanency plans with them for the next three and one-half years.…
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