In Re Bentley Q.
Syllabus
In this termination of parental rights action, the father has appealed the trial court's final order terminating his parental rights based on several statutory grounds. The maternal grandparents of the minor child, Bentley Q. (\the Child\), filed a petition to terminate the mother's and father's parental rights and to allow the maternal grandparents to adopt the Child. As pertinent to this appeal, the trial court found by clear and convincing evidence that the father had (1) abandoned the Child by willfully failing to visit the Child and (2) failed to manifest an ability and willingness to assume custody of or financial responsibility for the Child. The trial court also found by clear and convincing evidence that it was in the Child's best interest that the father's parental rights be terminated. The father has appealed. Discerning no reversible error, we affirm.
Judges: Judge Thomas R. Frierson, II
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