In Re F.R.R., III

Summary

The Tennessee Supreme Court affirmed the termination of Floyd Ray Rogers's parental rights to his child, F.R.R., holding that clear and convincing evidence supported the juvenile court's finding that Father willfully failed to visit the child during the four consecutive months preceding the termination petition, and that the evidence did not preponderate against the best-interest determination. The court declined to consider Father's argument that the mother's failure to give notice of her relocation cured the abandonment because the issue was not raised in the juvenile court, and it held that the Court of Appeals erred in addressing the parental relocation statute.