AUSTIN v. ARKANSAS DEPT. OF HUMAN SERVICES

No. CV-13-165.

428 S.W.3d 573 (2013)

2013 Ark. App. 406

Leonard AUSTIN, Appellant v. ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES & Minor Child, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Arkansas.

June 19, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leah Lanford , Arkansas Public Defender Commission, for appellant.

Tabitha B. McNulty , County Legal Operations, for appellee Arkansas Department of Human Services.

Chrestman Group, PLLC, by: Keith L. Chrestman , for appellee S.A.


DAVID M. GLOVER, Judge.

Leonard Austin appeals from the termination of his parental rights to his daughter, S.A. (D.O.B.12-4-07), challenging the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the trial court's best-interest and statutory-grounds findings. We affirm.

The Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) received an anonymous report that three-year-old S.A. was living, unsupervised, with Shawnda Harlen and Leonard Austin, her parents, while the parents used...

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