Court Opinion

ID: 9836208
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-02 03:02:17.472881+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:45:14.460611
License: Public Domain

SHEPHERD, J.,
concurring.
I concur in the majority opinion, reversing the order terminating the mother’s parental rights because the record does not reflect whether the fathers’ parental rights have been terminated, and write only to note apparent contradictory findings on the face of the trial court’s judgment. Although the trial court found that adoption is in the children’s manifest best interest based, in part, on the children’s *893continued exposure to incidents of domestic violence by Mr. Marquez, in the first paragraph of page 12 of the judgment, the trial court states: “At this time, the Court is working towards reunification of all the children with Yosvany Marquez Diaz, the father of four of the children.” Surely, both statements cannot be true.