Court Opinion

ID: 7585771
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 06:36:25.984355+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:37:54.305724
License: Public Domain

I concur in the judgment to quash the writ in this case as having been improvidently granted, but I must point out again that I do not believe that "the trial court . . . must determine the child's dependency," Fessler v. State Dept. ofHuman Resources, 567 So.2d 301, 301 (Ala.Civ.App. 1989) (emphasis added), before parental rights can be terminated. As I stated in Ex parte Beasley, 564 So.2d 950 (Ala. 1990) (Maddox, J., concurring in the result), there is no requirement, in my opinion, that a petitioning party show that the child is "dependent." In Ex parte Beasley, I set forth, in some detail, my reasons for believing *Page 304 
that our Child Protection Act makes no such requirement. I agree, however, that in this case the judgment of the trial court, which was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals, correctly determined the case on the merits.