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STATE OF MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS
In the Matter of DAI'VYON KEYSHON MIMS, Minor.

DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, Petitioner-Appellee, v LARONDA DUESHON MIMS, Respondent-Appellant.

UNPUBLISHED November 17, 2009

No. 291757 Wayne Circuit Court Family Division LC No. 02-411076

Before: Shapiro, P.J., and Jansen and Beckering, JJ. PER CURIUM. Respondent appeals as of right the trial court's order terminating her parental rights to the minor child at the initial dispositional hearing pursuant to MCL 712A.19b(3)(g), (i), (j), (l), and (m).1 We affirm. Although respondent argues that the trial court clearly erred in finding that the statutory grounds for termination were established by clear and convincing evidence, the record below discloses that respondent conceded the existence of a statutory ground for termination. Regardless, termination of parental rights need only be supported by a single statutory ground, In re McIntyre, 192 Mich App 47, 50; 480 NW2d 293 (1991), and in light of the evidence that respondent voluntarily released her parental rights to two other children, that her parental rights to a third child were previously terminated for failure to comply with the terms of a treatment plan, and that respondent was in prison at the time of the instant proceeding, the trial court did not clearly err in finding that

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