GREENVILLE COUNTY DSS v. BOWES

No. 23944.

437 S.E.2d 107 (1993)

GREENVILLE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, Respondent, v. Lynette BOWES and James Kent Godwin, Of Whom Lynette Bowes is, Appellant. In the Interest of Cricket BOWES, DOB: 09-25-85, child under the age of eighteen years. Shirley Jean HALL and Rodger Dale Hall, Respondents, v. GREENVILLE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, Lynette Bowes and James Kent Godwin, Of Whom Lynette Bowes is the Appellant. In the Interest of Cricket Joy BOWES, DOB: 09-25-85.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided October 25, 1993.

Rehearing Denied December 7, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew M. Jones, Jr., Legal Services Agency of Western Carolina, Inc., Greenville, for appellant.

Rodger Dale Hall and Shirley Hall, pro se.

Tana G. Vanderbilt, SCDSS, Columbia, for respondent DSS.

Debora Faulkner, Greenville, guardian ad litem, for the child.


MOORE, Justice:

This appeal involves the termination of appellant's (Mother's) parental rights in her seven-year-old daughter, Cricket, and Cricket's adoption by her foster parents, respondents Shirley and Rodger Hall.1 We reverse the termination of parental rights and remand for a determination of custody.

FACTS

Mother was pregnant with Cricket in February 1985 when she was hospitalized in Virginia for treatment...

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