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§ 93-15-121. Grounds for termination

MS Code § 93-15-121 (2019) (N/A)
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(a) The parent has been medically diagnosed by a qualified mental health professional with a severe mental illness or deficiency that is unlikely to change in a reasonable period of time and which, based upon expert testimony or an established pattern of behavior, makes the parent unable or unwilling to provide an adequate permanent home for the child;

(b) The parent has been medically diagnosed by a qualified health professional with an extreme physical incapacitation that is unlikely to change in a reasonable period of time and which, based upon expert testimony or an established pattern of behavior, prevents the parent, despite reasonable accommodations, from providing minimally acceptable care for the child;

(c) The parent is suffering from habitual alcoholism or other drug addiction and has failed to successfully complete alcohol or drug treatment;

(d) The parent is unwilling to provide reasonably necessary food, clothing, shelter, or medical care for the child; reasonably necessary medical care does not include recommended or optional vaccinations against childhood or any other disease;

(e) The parent has failed to exercise reasonable visitation or communication with the child;

(f) The parent’s abusive or neglectful conduct has caused, at least in part, an extreme and deep-seated antipathy by the child toward the parent, or some other substantial erosion of the relationship between the parent and the child;

(g) The parent has committed an abusive act for which reasonable efforts to maintain the children in the home would not be required under Section 43-21-603, or a series of physically, mentally, or emotionally abusive incidents, against the child or another child, whether related by consanguinity or affinity or not, making future contacts between the parent and child undesirable; or

(h)

(i) The parent has been convicted of any of the following offenses against any child:

1. Rape of a child under Section 97-3-65;

2. Sexual battery of a child under Section 97-3-95(c);

3. Touching a child for lustful purposes under Section 97-5-23;

4. Exploitation of a child under Sections 97-5-31 through 97-5-37;

5. Felonious abuse or battery of a child under Section 97-5-39(2);

6. Carnal knowledge of a step or adopted child or a child of a cohabitating partner under Section 97-5-41; or

7. Human trafficking of a child under Section 97-3-54.1; or

(ii) The parent has been convicted of:

1. Murder or voluntary manslaughter of another child of the parent;

2. Aiding, abetting, attempting, conspiring or soliciting to commit murder or voluntary manslaughter of the child or another child of the parent; or

3. A felony assault that results in the serious bodily injury to the child or another child of the parent.

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§ 93-15-121. Grounds for termination