A.H. v. Madison County Department of Human Resources

THOMPSON, Presiding Judge.

On June 11, 2015, the Madison County Department of Human Resources (“DHR”) filed in the Madison Juvenile Court (“the juvenile court”) four separate petitions seeking to terminate the parental rights of A.H. (“the mother”) and J.P. (“the father”) to their four minor children, all of whom were born between 2011 and January 2015. The juvenile court consolidated the four actions and conducted an ore tenus hearing on DHR’s petitions on October 28, 2015.

On November 2, 2015, the juvenile court entered four virtually identical judgments in which it ordered that the mother’s…