Statewide Guardian Ad Litem Program v. A.A.

The Statewide Guardian Ad Litem Program (“GAL”) and the Department of Children and Families (“DCF”) appeal the trial court’s Final Judgment Denying Involuntary Termination of Parental Rights and Ordering a Permanent Guardianship Case Plan (“final judgment”). The trial court denied DCF’s petition to terminate the parental rights of both A.A. (“Mother”) and A.S.A. (“Father”), despite finding that DCF had proved statutory grounds for termination as to both Mother and Father by clear and convincing evidence, and further finding that it was in the manifest best interest of the children to…