IN RE AMBER & DUWANE MAIDENS & RONNIE SMITH MINORS
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STATE OF MICHIGAN
COURT OF APPEALS
In the Matter of AMBER K. MAIDENS a/k/a
AMBER SMITH, RONNIE D. SMITH and
DUWANE MAIDENS, Minors.
FAMILY INDEPENDENCE AGENCY,
UNPUBLISHED
August 24, 2001
Petitioner-Appellee,
V
KATHLEEN MAIDENS,
No. 231758
Manistee Circuit Court
Family Division
LC No. 98-000043-NA
Respondent-Appellant,
and
JOHN MACKEY and RON SMITH,
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)(g). We affirm. This case is being
decided without oral argument pursuant to MCR 7.214(E).
After carefully reviewing the record, we are satisfied that the family court did not clearly
err in finding that the statutory ground for termination was established by clear and convincing
evidence. MCR 5.974(I); In re Sours, 459 Mich 624, 633; 593 NW2d 520 (1999). Further, the
evidence did not show that termination of respondent-appellant’s parental rights was clearly not
* Circuit judge, sitting on the Court of Appeals by assignment.
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in the children’s best interests. MCL 712A.19b(5); In re Trejo, 462 Mich 341, 356-357; 612
NW2d 407 (2000). Thus, the family court did not err in terminating respondent-appellant’s
parental rights to the children.
Affirmed.
/s/ E. Thomas Fitzgerald
/s/ Hilda R. Gage
/s/ Charles H. Miel
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