Murder of parent allows but does not require TPR 

Posted: 1:00 am Mon, March 22, 2010
By Barbara L. Jones

The Court of Appeals has come close to establishing a bright-line rule for termination of parental rights – but stopped short of actually doing so.In a case in which the children’s father murdered their mother and received a sentence longer than the children’s minority, a finding of palpable unfitness as a parent and the termination ...