VANCE v. LINCOLN COUNTY DPW

No. 89-CA-1173.

582 So.2d 414 (1991)

Jacqueline VANCE v. LINCOLN COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE, by Walter F. WEATHERS, Social Services Area Director, and D.W., and C.T., Minors, by and Through Their Next Friend, Walter F. Weathers.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

June 5, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vivian Brown-Toussaint, Natchez, Deborah A. McDonald, McComb, for appellant.

Mike C. Moore, Atty. Gen., Jackson, Patricia B. Marshall, J.D. Woodcock, Cassandra D. Burney, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, C.J., and PITTMAN and BANKS, JJ.


PITTMAN, Justice, for the Court:

The Lincoln County Department of Public Welfare, now known as the Lincoln County Department of Human Services, petitioned in Lincoln County Chancery Court to terminate the parental rights of Jacqueline Vance as to two of her children, D.W. and C.T. After making the requisite findings under Miss. Code Ann. § 93-15-103 (Supp. 1987), the chancery court terminated Jacqueline Vance's parental rights as to

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