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STATE OF MICHIGAN
COURT OF APPEALS

In the Matter of DEVON MICHAEL ANDERSON, Minor.

FAMILY INDEPENDENCE AGENCY, Petitioner-Appellee, v RONALD EUGENE CARTER, JR., Respondent-Appellant, and TRACY LYNN ANDERSON, Respondent.

UNPUBLISHED February 3, 2005

No. 257801 Calhoun Circuit Court Family Division LC No. 03-000344-NA

Before: Zahra, P.J., and Neff and Cooper, JJ. MEMORANDUM. Respondent Ronald Eugene Carter, Jr., appeals as of right from the trial court's order terminating his parental rights to the minor child pursuant to MCL 712A.19b(3)(g). We affirm. Respondent challenges the trial court's findings concerning the statutory ground for termination. To terminate parental rights, the trial court must find that at least one of the statutory grounds for termination in MCL 712A.19b(3) has been established by clear and convincing evidence. In re Sours, 459 Mich 624, 632-633; 593 NW2d 520 (1999). Once the court determines that a statutory ground for termination has been established, it must terminate the respondent's parental rights unless there exists clear evidence, on the whole record, that termination is clearly not in the child's best interests. MCL 712A.19b(5); In re Trejo, 462 Mich 341, 353; 612 NW2d 407 (2000). We review the trial court's decision for clear error. Id. at 356 357; In re Sours, supra at 633. The decision "must strike us as more than just maybe or probably wrong . . . ." Id. (internal quotation marks and citations omitted). The trial court did not clearly err in finding that

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