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COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA

Present: Judges Petty, Alston and Senior Judge Coleman Argued at Alexandria, Virginia

FAUQUIER COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES v. Record No. 2490-10-4

BETHANEE RIDGEWAY OPINION BY JUDGE SAM W. COLEMAN III DECEMBER 6, 2011

BETHANEE RIDGEWAY v. Record No. 2550-10-4

FAUQUIER COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF FAUQUIER COUNTY Jeffrey W. Parker, Judge Robert F. Beard; Arthur von Keller IV, Guardian ad litem for the minor children, for Fauquier County Department of Social Services. Jennifer R. Moore (Fallon Myers & Marshall, LLP, on briefs), for Bethanee Ridgeway.

In this consolidated appeal, Fauquier County Department of Social Services (the Department) appeals the trial court's refusal to terminate the parental rights of Bethanee Ridgeway (mother) to C.R., and mother appeals the trial court's termination of her parental rights to A.R.1 Mother argues that the trial court erred in concluding that she failed within a reasonable period of

The trial court terminated mother's parental rights to her two oldest children, A.R. and H.R., but refused to terminate her parental rights to her two youngest children, C.R. and D.R. However, this appeal concerns only the rulings to terminate parental rights as to one child, A.R., while refusing to terminate parental rights of the younger sibling, C.R.

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time to substantially remedy the conditions which brought A.R. into foster care and that termination of parental rights was in A.R.'s best interests because the trial court had insufficient evidence to make that determination. The Department argues that the trial court erred by (1) ruling that the Department failed to prove that pursuant to Code

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