Sampson v. Division of Family Services

JACOBS, Justice.

The respondent-below appellant, Danielle Sampson, appeals from an order of the Family Court terminating her parental rights in her biological child, Samuel L. Sampson. Sampson argues that the statute under which her parental rights were terminated is unconstitutional because it deprived her of her constitutional right to due process. That statute, 13 Del. C. § 1103(a)(6), provides in essence that parental rights may be terminated where: (1) a parent’s rights over another child have previously been involuntarily terminated, and (2) termination is in the best interests of the…