Minton v. Arkansas Department of Human Services

Andree Layton Roaf, Judge.

Alicia Minton appeals a Benton County Chancery Court decree that terminated her parental rights in her daughter M.M, a two-year-old child who had been taken into and remained in the custody of the Department of Human Services (DHS) since shortly after she was born. Minton argues that the court erred in finding that DHS proved by clear and convincing evidence that her parental rights should be terminated. We reverse.

M.M. was born prematurely on December 2, 1997, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rogers and was immediately transferred to Arkansas Childrens Hospital in Little…