Court Opinion

ID: 4803836
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-08-21 03:49:17.153139+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:37:30.341312
License: Public Domain

I must respectfully dissent. The main opinion reverses the judgment terminating the parental rights of T.B. ("the mother") on the ground that continued foster-care placement of the children until the return of J.B. ("the father") from Guatemala was a viable alternative to the termination of the mother's parental rights. I dissented from the reversal of the judgment terminating the father's parental rights because I believed that the evidence supported a conclusion that the father had abandoned his children. See J.B. v. DeKalb County Dep't ofHuman Res., 12 So.3d 100, 119 (Ala.Civ.App. 2008) (Thomas, J., dissenting). Thus, I cannot agree with the main opinion that the juvenile court erred in failing" to continue the children's foster-care placement. I would therefore affirm the judgment of the juvenile court terminating the mother's parental rights and, because I would uphold the termination of the parental rights of both parents, I would also affirm the judgments approving the adoption.