that he had invested $600,000 in building the home in Jackson but that it remained incomplete. The trial court concluded that Father’s payment of $3500 during the four months immediately preceding the filing of the petition for termination precluded a finding of abandonment. The evidence does not preponderate against the trial court’s factual findings on which this determination is based. Our review of the record supports the conclusion that Mother and Stepfather failed to prove by clear and convincing evidence that Father’s payment history constituted abandonment by willful failure to support. Although we have concluded that the record does not support the ground of abandonment based on willful failure to support, only one of the st 2010 WL 5549229, at *8 (Tenn.Ct.App. Dec. 29, 2010) (<HOLDING>). Father argues that these cases are
recognizing this substantial interest in context of termination of parental rights holding that generally parents have a due process right to participate in a permanency hearing because the opportunity to defend against charges of abuse and neglect may prevent a termination of parental rights holding that a fathers failure to resolve his drug addiction as required by the permanency plan constituted grounds for termination of his parental rights recognizing that the department is required to present clear and convincing evidence to support termination of a parents parental rights recognizing that fathers parental rights were terminated based upon his incarceration and his behavior while in prison his history of substance abuse and the fact that his child support payments are in arrears