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Posted by: Azya Thornton on Aug 19, 2025

Court: TN Court of Appeals

Attorneys 1: Nick Perenich, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Loren M.

Attorneys 2: Wende J. Rutherford, Nashville, Tennessee for the appellees, Abigail Christine Bargatze Ray, and Adron Wayne Ray, III.

Attorneys 3: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Amber L. Barker, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Solicitor General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee, Department of Children’s Services.

Judge(s): STAFFORD

Mother appeals the trial court’s findings that (1) termination of Mother’s parental rights is supported by the grounds of persistence of conditions, mental incompetence, and failure to manifest an ability and willingness to assume custody, and (2) termination is in the child’s best interest. Discerning no reversible error, we affirm.

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