IN RE WILLIAMS-NETTLES/NETTLES MINORS
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STATE OF MICHIGAN
COURT OF APPEALS
In the Matter of MANDY DENISE NETTLES,
SHAKEIA LAVON NETTLES, and JACQUISE
DENICE WILLIAMS-NETTLES, Minors.
FAMILY INDEPENDENCE AGENCY,
UNPUBLISHED
November 7, 2000
Petitioner-Appellee,
v
KENNETH JOHNSON,
No. 223272
Wayne Circuit Court
Family Division
LC No. 97-357779
Respondent-Appellant,
and
ARNIETTA ANN NETTLES, GREGORY
WILLIAMS and KENNETH BLACK,
Respondents.
Before: Jansen, P.J., and Doctoroff and O’Connell, JJ.
MEMORANDUM.
Respondent-appellant appeals as of right from the family court’s order terminating his parental
rights to the minor child, Mandy Denise Nettles, under MCL 712A.19b(3)(a)(ii); MSA
27.3178(598.19b)(3)(a)(ii). We affirm the court’s termination order as modified.
We agree that the trial court erred in terminating respondent-appellant’s parental rights to the
child where respondent-appellant never established that he had any parental rights to terminate. Under
MCR 5.974(B)(2), a “respondent” in a termination of parental rights proceeding includes the father of a
child as defined by MCR 5.903(A)(4). Respondent-appellant does not fit any of the definitions of
“father” listed in MCR 5.903(A)(4). Thus, respondent-appellant did not have any parental rights to
terminate. Accordingly, we direct that respondent-appellant’s name be stricken from the order
terminating parental rights. The order is affirmed in
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all other respects.
Affirmed in part and reversed in part.
/s/ Kathleen Jansen
/s/ Martin M. Doctoroff
/s/ Peter D. O’Connell
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