STATE DEPT. OF HUMAN RESOURCES v. THOMAS

Civ. 7093.

554 So.2d 1063 (1989)

STATE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES v. Maggie THOMAS. (In re Darnell THOMAS).

Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama.

November 8, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Prendergast and Coleman Campbell, Asst. Attys. Gen., and Lynn S. Merrill, Spec. Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant.

Kin Brown of Landreau & Brown, Phenix City, for appellee.


INGRAM, Presiding Judge.

The Russell County Department of Human Resources filed a petition to terminate the parental rights of Maggie Thomas to her son, Darnell. After an ore tenus proceeding, the trial court terminated all legal rights of the mother to her child and granted temporary custody to the department to "make an effort to place said child with his maternal grandmother, Lucille Thomas."

The department appeals and asserts that the trial court abused...

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