PRATT v. ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES

No. CA 12-172.

413 S.W.3d 261 (2012)

2012 Ark. App. 399

Yolanda Lafay PRATT & Kirby Jackson, Appellants, v. ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES & Minor Child, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

June 20, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leah Lanford , Attorney at Law, Arkansas Public Defender Commission, Little Rock, for Appellant Yolanda Pratt.

Janet Lawrence , Attorney at Law, Conway, for Appellant Kirby Jackson.

Melissa B. Richardson , Bristow & Richardson P.L.L.C., Jonesboro , and Tabitha McNulty , DHS Office Chief Counsel, Little Rock, for Appellee.


DAVID M. GLOVER, Judge.

Yolanda Pratt and Kirby Jackson appeal from the termination of their parental rights to their son C.J., who was born June 10, 2006. We affirm both terminations.

Background

This case began1 in 2010 with DHS taking emergency custody of C.J. amid allegations and counter-allegations that C.J. was living among people who were smoking crack cocaine, in unsafe living conditions, with an abusive...

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