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STATE OF MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS

UNPUBLISHED August 12, 2010 In the Matter of SHANNON, Minors. No. 296284 Kalamazoo Circuit Court Family Division LC No. 2008-000022-NA

Before: GLEICHER, P.J., and ZAHRA and K. F. KELLY, JJ. PER CURIAM. Respondent-appellant W. Shannon appeals as of right the trial court order terminating his parental rights to his two minor children under MCL 712A.19b(3)(c)(ii). We affirm. The trial court did not clearly err in finding that the statutory ground for termination of respondent father's parental rights was established by clear and convincing evidence, and that termination of respondent's parental rights was in the children's best interests. MCL 712A.19b(5); MCR 3.977(J); In re Trejo, 462 Mich 341, 356-357; 612 NW2d 407 (2000), In re Miller, 433 Mich 331, 337; 445 NW2d 161 (1989). The trial court found at the September 2009 termination hearing that respondent father's unstable relationship with the girlfriend who housed and supported him, and failure in eighteen months to rectify the inability to "stand on his own two feet," established

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