In re J.J.G.

On January 21, 1993, the Phillips County Attorney, on behalf of the Department of Family Services (DFS), filed a petition in the District Court for the Seventeenth Judicial District in Phillips County in which the court was requested to terminate the parent-child relationship of Mary Ann G. and her natural child, J.J.G., and to grant the DFS permanent legal custody of J.J.G. with the right to consent to his adoption. On February 2, 1993, Rick and Colleen Thompson, the foster parents of J.J.G. from the time of his birth until he was 18 months old, filed a petition in which they sought…