Opinion
A92A1939.
DECIDED JANUARY 29, 1993.
Termination of parental rights. Ware Superior Court. Before Judge Pritchard, pro hac vice.
McGee McGee, J. B. McGee, Jr., for appellant.
Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Margot M. Cairnes, Teresa E. Lazzaroni, Staff Attorneys, Michael D. Devane, for appellee.
Appellant appeals from an order of the juvenile court terminating her parental rights in her minor child.
1. "`The appropriate standard of appellate review in a case of this sort is whether after reviewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the [judgment of the juvenile court], any rational trier of fact could have found by clear and convincing evidence that the natural parent's rights to custody were lost. . . . The factfinding and weighing of evidence is to be done in the [juvenile] court under the clear and convincing evidence test. The reviewing court is to defer to the [juvenile] court in the area of factfinding and should affirm unless the appellate standard of review, here the rational factfinder test . . ., is not met. When we apply that test here we note the conflicting evidence presented to the [juvenile] court and conclude that a rational factfinder could have found by clear and convincing evidence ([present] parental . . . inability [which is likely to go unremedied, as is required] by OCGA § 15-11-81 (b))' . . . [Cit.]" In the Interest of S. T., 201 Ga. App. 37, 40 (4) ( 410 S.E.2d 312) (1991). See also In the Interest of J. I. H., 191 Ga. App. 848, 850 (3) ( 383 S.E.2d 349) (1989); In the Interest of S. G. T. G., 182 Ga. App. 95, 101 ( 354 S.E.2d 640) (1987). Compare Chancey v. Dept. of Human Resources, 156 Ga. App. 338 (1) ( 274 S.E.2d 728) (1980); R. C. N. v. State of Ga., 141 Ga. App. 490, 492 ( 233 S.E.2d 866) (1977). The general grounds are without merit.
2. Appellant's remaining enumeration of error is moot.
Judgment affirmed. Pope, C. J., and Johnson, J., concur.