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STATE OF MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS

UNPUBLISHED June 26, 2012 In the Matter of A. D. KETCHUM, Minor. No. 307471 Saginaw Circuit Court Family Division LC No. 09-032274-NA

Before: BECKERING, P.J., and FITZGERALD and STEPHENS, JJ. PER CURIAM. Respondent appeals of right an order terminating his parental rights to his daughter based on MCL 712A.19b(3)(c)(i),(g), and (j). We affirm. Termination of parental rights requires a finding that at least one of the statutory grounds under MCL 712A.19b(3) has been established by clear and convincing evidence. In re Trejo Minors, 462 Mich 341, 356-357; 612 NW2d 407 (2000). The trial court must then order termination of parental rights if it finds that termination is in the child's best interests. MCL 712A.19b(5). The trial court's decision that a ground for termination of parental rights has been proved by clear and convincing evidence is reviewed for clear error, as is the decision regarding the child's best interests. The decision "is clearly erroneous if, although there is evidence to support it, the reviewing court on the entire evidence is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been made." In re JK, 468 Mich 202, 209-210; 661 NW2d 216 (2003). Respondent notes that during the pendency of the termination proceedings he had a criminal case pending1 and argues that the trial court erred in concluding, before resolution of the criminal case, that there had been domestic violence. The trial court discussed domestic violence in connection with

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