IN RE K.S.

No. 21-0180.

874 S.E.2d 738 (2022)

IN RE K.S.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Filed: April 28, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P. Todd Phillips, Esq. , Lyons Phillips Legal Group PLLC, Morgantown, West Virginia, Counsel for Petitioner G.H.

Cheryl L. Warman, Esq. , Morgantown, West Virginia, Counsel for Respondent S.S.

Patrick Morrisey, Esq. , Attorney General, Lee Niezgoda, Esq. , Assistant Attorney General, Fairmont, West Virginia, Counsel for Respondent DHHR.

Stephanie Nethken, Esq. , Westover, West Virginia, Guardian ad litem.


Shortly after K.S. was born in 2009, her parents split up and her father, Petitioner G.H., was ordered to pay her mother, S.S., $248 per month in child support.1 Ten years later, K.S. was placed in Petitioner's custody after she was removed from S.S.'s home because of a child abuse and neglect petition...

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