In Re Archer R.

Syllabus

A mother and stepfather filed a petition seeking to terminate the parental rights of a father based on abandonment by failure to visit and failure to support his child. The trial court found the petitioners proved the ground of abandonment by failure to support by clear and convincing evidence but did not prove the ground of abandonment by failure to visit because the mother interfered with the father's attempts to visit the child. The trial court then found it was not in the child's best interest for the father's parental rights to be terminated and denied the petition to terminate. The mother and stepfather appealed, and we affirm the trial court's judgment.