IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF TENNESSEE
AT NASHVILLE
November 27, 2012 Session
IN RE MADILENE G. R.
Appeal from the Chancery Court for Rutherford County
No. 11CV-579 Robert E. Corlew, III, Judge
No. M2012-01178-COA-R3-PT - Filed January 10, 2013
P ATRICIA J. C OTTRELL, P.J., M.S., concurring opinion.
OPINION
I concur in the reversal of the trial court’s termination of Father’s parental rights.
However, it is my opinion that the Guardians failed to prove by clear and convincing
evidence that Father willfully failed to support the child in the four months prior to the filing
of the petition. The evidence set out in the majority opinion does not, in my opinion, meet
the Constitutionally required standard.
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PATRICIA J. COTTRELL, JUDGE