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DIVISIONS I & II

CV-17-992 RHONDA CANERDAY-BANKS AND DONALD BANKSAPPELLANTS

V.

DAVID BARTON, REBECCA BARTON, MINOR CHILD, AND ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES APPELLEES October 31, 2018

APPEAL FROM THE POPE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT [NO. 58JV-14-135]

HONORABLE KEN D. COKER, JR., JUDGE

AFFIRMED

Appellants Rhonda Canerday-Banks and Donald Banks (collectively referred to herein as the Bankses) appeal the Pope County Circuit Court's orders dismissing their petition to adopt a minor child, P.S., and granting the adoption petition filed by appellees David and Rebecca Barton. We affirm the circuit court's orders.

The parental rights of P.S.'s biological parents were terminated on January 20, 2017, by an order of the Pope County Circuit Court. Pursuant to that order, P.S. was placed in the care and custody of the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS). At that time, P.S., age four, was living with the Bartons, who had been her foster parents since she was removed from her parents' custody at the age of sixteen months. P.S. had spent the majority of her life living with the Bartons, save for short trial placements with a relative in Louisiana