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STATE OF MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS

UNPUBLISHED April 17, 2012 In the Matter of OTTO, Minors. No. 305896 Jackson Circuit Court Family Division LC No. 10-001420-NA

In the Matter of OTTO, Minors.

No. 305897 Jackson Circuit Court Family Division LC No. 10-001420-NA

Before: FORT HOOD, P.J., and CAVANAGH and K. F. KELLY, JJ. PER CURIAM. In this consolidated appeal, respondents appeal as of right the trial court's termination of their parental rights under MCL 712A.19b(3)(c)(i), (c)(ii), (g), (j), and (l). We affirm. The trial court did not err in concluding that one or more of the statutory grounds for termination of respondents' parental rights were established by clear and convincing evidence. See MCR 3.977(K); In re McIntyre, 192 Mich App 47, 50; 480 NW2d 293 (1991). The conditions leading to the adjudications on July 20, 2010, and October 12, 2010, were respondents' homelessness, lack of employment and financial resources, poor parenting skills, respondent father's bipolar disorder, and respondent mother's mental health issues and personality disorder, which constituted failure to provide proper care for the minor children. Respondents' parental rights to another child were terminated in Oklahoma on April 9, 2010, but termination was not sought at the initial disposition and respondents were provided reunification services, and more than 182 days elapsed between the dispositions and the termination hearing. In considering termination under

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