IN RE PASCHALL & COLEMAN MINORS

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STATE OF MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS In the Matter of TEENA PASCHALL, JALISA COLEMAN and JORDAN COLEMAN, Minors. FAMILY INDEPENDENCE AGENCY, UNPUBLISHED August 24, 2001 Petitioner-Appellee, v No. 231483 Jackson Circuit Court Family Division LC No. 99-096988-NA MARIE BRUCE, Respondent-Appellant, and JEFFREY PASCHALL and HENRY COLEMAN, Respondents. Before: Fitzgerald, P.J., and Gage and C. H. Miel*, 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)(c)(i), (c)(ii), (g) and (j). We affirm. This case is being decided without oral argument pursuant to MCR 7.214(E). This Court reviews for clear error both the trial court’s decision that statutory grounds for terminating parental rights were proven by clear and convincing evidence and its decision regarding the children’s best interests. MCR 5.974(I); In re Trejo, 462 Mich 341, 356-357; 612 NW2d 407 (2000). The trial court did not clearly err in finding that statutory grounds for termination were established by clear and convincing evidence. Furthermore, considered in its entirety, the evidence did not show that termination was clearly not in the children’s best interests. Thus, we find no clear error in the trial court’s decision to terminate respondentappellant’s parental rights. * Circuit judge, sitting on the Court of Appeals by assignment. -1- Affirmed. /s/ E. Thomas Fitzgerald /s/ Hilda R. Gage /s/ Charles H. Miel -2-

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