IN RE HUNTER RANDALL MOUTARD MINOR
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STATE OF MICHIGAN
COURT OF APPEALS
In the Matter of HRM, Minor.
FAMILY INDEPENDENCE AGENCY,
UNPUBLISHED
January 29, 2002
Petitioner-Appellee,
v
No. 232261
Macomb Circuit Court
Family Division
LC No. 00-045873-NA
ROBERT MOUTARD,
Respondent-Appellant,
and
RENEE MOUTARD,
Respondent.
In the Matter of HRM, Minor.
FAMILY INDEPENDENCE AGENCY,
UNPUBLISHED
Petitioner-Appellee,
v
No. 232323
Macomb Circuit Court
Family Division
LC No. 00-045873-NA
RENEE MOUTARD
Respondent-Appellant,
and
ROBERT MOUTARD,
Respondent.
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Before: Sawyer, P.J., and O’Connell and Zahra, JJ.
MEMORANDUM.
In these consolidated appeals, respondents appeal as of right from the trial court's order
terminating their parental rights to the minor child under MCL 712A.19b(3)(c)(i) and (g). We
affirm.
This Court reviews for clear error both the trial court's decision regarding whether a
statutory ground for termination was proven by clear and convincing evidence and its decision
regarding a child's best interest. MCR 5.974(I); In re Trejo Minors, 462 Mich 341, 356-357; 612
NW2d 407 (2000). We conclude that the trial court did not clearly err in finding that the
statutory ground for termination under §19b(3)(c)(i) was established by clear and convincing
evidence. Because the trial court properly terminated respondents' parental rights under
§19b(3)(c)(i), and only one statutory ground for termination must be established in order to
terminate parental rights, we need not decide whether termination was also proper under
§19b(3)(g). See In re Trejo, supra, at 360. Further, considered in its entirety, the evidence did
not show that termination of respondents' parental rights was clearly not in the child's best
interest. Thus, the trial court did not err in terminating respondents' parental rights to the child.
Id. at 364.
Affirmed.
/s/ David H. Sawyer
/s/ Peter D. O’Connell
/s/ Brian K. Zahra
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