In Re Brooklyn R.

Syllabus

The Tennessee Department of Children's Services filed a petition to terminate a father's parental rights based on abandonment by failure to support abandonment by failure to visit abandonment by wanton disregard substantial noncompliance with permanency plans and failure to manifest an ability and willingness to assume custody of the child. The trial court granted the petition, finding that the Department proved the alleged grounds by clear and convincing evidence and that terminating the father's parental rights was in the best interests of the child. The father appeals the trial court's conclusion that terminating his parental rights is in the best interests of the child. We affirm.