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KNOX v. LYNCHBURG DIVISION OF SOC. SERV.

Record No. 801789.

288 S.E.2d 399 (1982)

Dorothy Tweedy KNOX v. LYNCHBURG DIVISION OF SOCIAL SERVICES.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 12, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter O. Ward, Jr., Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Walter C. Erwin, III, Asst. City Atty., Frank West Morrison, Lynchburg, Guardian ad litem (Bell, Coward, Morrison & Spies, Lynchburg, on briefs), for appellee.

Marshall Coleman, Atty. Gen., Jane D. Hickey, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., John A. Rupp, Asst. Atty. Gen., on brief, amicus curiae, Commonwealth of Va., Dept. of Welfare, for appellee.

Robert E. Shepherd, Jr., Richmond, on brief, amicus curiae, Youth Advocacy Clinic, T. C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond.

Before CARRICO, C. J., COCHRAN, COMPTON, THOMPSON and STEPHENSON, JJ., and HARRISON, Retired Justice.

CARRICO, Chief Justice.

In this case, the trial court terminated the residual parental rights of the mother of three minor children. The principal question presented stems from our 1975 decision in Rocka v. Roanoke Co. Dep't of Welfare, 215 Va. 515, 211 S.E.2d 76, and the General Assembly's 1977 enactment of Code § 16.1-283.1 Specifically, the question is ...

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