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IN RE J.M.S.M.

No. A99A1712.

523 S.E.2d 357 (1999)

240 Ga. App. 294

In the Interest of J.M.S.M., a child.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

October 6, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Baskin & Baskin, Brenda Godfrey, Marietta, William E. Brewer, Atlanta, for appellant.

Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Assistant Attorney General, Sanders B. Deen, Robert J. Grayson, Marietta, for appellee.

JOHNSON, Chief Judge.

In order to terminate parental rights, a juvenile court must find clear and convincing evidence of present parental misconduct or inability, not merely evidence of past parental unfitness.1 The Cobb County Juvenile Court, in terminating the parental rights of the mother of J.M.S.M., relied on evidence that the mother is currently on felony probation, has an eighteen-year criminal record that includes numerous convictions...

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