W2021-01225-COA-R3-PT

This appeal arises from the termination of a father’s parental rights to his minor children
upon the juvenile court’s finding by clear and convincing evidence of the statutory grounds
of abandonment by failure to provide a suitable home, abandonment by failure to visit,
substantial noncompliance with the permanency plan, persistent conditions, putative father
grounds, and failure to manifest an ability and willingness to assume custody of and
financial responsibility for the children. The juvenile court further found by clear and
convincing evidence that termination of the father’s parental rights was in the children’s
best interest. We reverse the statutory grounds of abandonment by failure to provide a
suitable home and persistent conditions. We also reverse the ground of abandonment by
failure to visit and the putative father ground of failure to seek reasonable visitation as they
pertain to the child, Samyra. We affirm the remaining grounds for the termination of the
father’s parental rights, as well as the juvenile court’s determination that termination of the
father’s parental rights is in the children’s best interest.