IN RE MATTHEWS MINORS
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STATE OF MICHIGAN
COURT OF APPEALS
In the Matter of LUCAS MATTHEWS, MONICA
MATTHEWS and DARRELL MATTHEWSMCDONALD, a/k/a DARRELL MATTHEWS
MCDONALD, Minors.
FAMILY INDEPENDENCE AGENCY,
UNPUBLISHED
August 27, 1999
Petitioner-Appellee,
v
CILLASSTE MCDONALD-TAYLOR,
No. 215796
Kalamazoo Circuit Court
Family Division
LC No. 97-000091 NA
Respondent-Appellant,
and
DARRELL KEITH MATTHEWS,
Respondent.
Before: White, P.J., Markey and Wilder, JJ.
MEMORANDUM.
Respondent-appellant appeals as of right from the family court order terminating her parental
rights to the minor children under MCL 712A.19b(3)(g); MSA 27.3178(598.19b)(3)(g). We affirm.
The family court did not err in terminating respondent-appellant’s parental rights where
respondent-appellant failed to comply with the conditions of the Adrianson agreement. See In re
Adrianson, 105 Mich App 300; 306 NW2d 487 (1981). Moreover, in pleading no contest to the
allegations in the termination petition, respondent-appellant acknowledged that the plea agreement was
in her children’s best interests. The court also specifically found, in both the order taking respondent
appellant’s plea under advisement as well as the order terminating parental rights, that it was in the
children’s best interests to terminate respondent-appellant’s parental rights. Accordingly, respondent
appellant’s claim that the court failed to consider the children’s best interests is without merit.
Affirmed.
/s/ Helene N. White
/s/ Jane E. Markey
/s/ Kurtis T. Wilder
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