Reanna Rodgers, Appellant v. Destiny Rodgers, Appellee — Womack, J., Dissenting

Summary

Justice Womack dissented, reasoning that Reanna Rodgers's noncommunication was justified while she reasonably understood a no-visitation order to prohibit all contact with her children. He would have excluded that period from the statutory one-year calculation and concluded that the adoption petition was filed before the required period accrued. Justice Baker, dissenting, would likewise have reversed and dismissed, while Justice Wynne, concurring, rejected the majority's contact rationale but would have upheld the adoption on the independent ground that Reanna unjustifiably failed to provide support.