IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA

No. 340A15

Filed 18 March 2016 IN THE MATTER OF: M.P.M.

Appeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals, ___ N.C. App. ___, 776 S.E.2d 687 (2015), affirming an order entered on 12 December 2014 by Judge Michelle Fletcher in District Court, Guilford County. Heard in the Supreme Court on 15 February 2016.

Mercedes O. Chut for Guilford County Department of Health and Human

Services, petitioner-appellee.

Opoku-Mensah Law Firm, PLLC, by Gertrude Opoku-Mensah, for appellee

Guardian ad Litem.

Mary McCullers Reece for respondent-appellant father.

PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.