Opinion ID: 4513061
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Heading: The Mother’s Unfitness

Text: [¶4] The mother asserts that there was insufficient evidence to support the court’s judgment terminating her parental rights. [¶5] “In order to terminate parental rights, the court must find, by clear and convincing evidence, at least one of the four statutory grounds of parental unfitness.” In re Child of Katherine C., 2019 ME 146, ¶ 2, 217 A.3d 68 (alterations omitted) (quotation marks omitted). “We will set aside a finding of parental unfitness only if there is no competent evidence in the record to 4Although the court found that the mother meets “two of the four definitions of parental unfitness,” it discusses three grounds on which it found parental unfitness. See 22 M.R.S. § 4055(1)(B)(2)(b)(i)-(ii), (iv) (2018). 5 support it, if the fact-finder clearly misapprehends the meaning of the evidence, or if the finding is so contrary to the credible evidence that it does not represent the truth and right of the case.” Id. (quotation marks omitted). “Evidence is clear and convincing when the trial court could have reasonably been persuaded on the basis of evidence in the record that the required factual findings were highly probable.” In re Child of Corey B., 2020 ME 3, ¶ 4, --- A.3d --- (quotation marks omitted). [¶6] Viewing the record in its entirety, we conclude that competent evidence in the record supports the court’s finding that the mother is parentally unfit. See In re Children of Danielle M., 2019 ME 174, ¶ 14, 222 A.3d 608.