Dinkins v. Arkansas Department of Human Services

TOM GLAZE, Justice.

Tiffany Dinkins is the mother of seven children, three of whom -— Khadijah, Khatiana, and Khasahn — are involved in this appeal. Dinkins’s parental rights as to these three children were terminated by a chancery court order on September 8, 1999. Prior to the termination, the children had been in the custody of the Arkansas Department of Human Services (“DHS”) and in foster care for nearly two-and-a-half years. Dinkins appealed the court’s order terminating her parental rights to the court of appeals, which reversed the chancellor on the grounds that the decision was not…