Williams v. Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services

This is an appeal by a natural father from an order permanently terminating his parental rights to his two children.

The father in this case was never married to his children’s mother and never had, and therefore, never neglected the actual personal care of his children. Their mother had possession, custody and personal care and control of the children until, because of her action, the children were adjudicated dependent. The primary reason the father’s rights were terminated was because he did not have, and could not acquire, the special parenting ability required by a performance agreement.1…