Amanda J. Carroll Brammer v. Craig County Department of Social Services

COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA

Present: Judges Petty, AtLee and Senior Judge Clements

UNPUBLISHED

AMANDA J. CARROLL BRAMMER

MEMORANDUM OPINION* v. Record Nos. 1777-14-3 PER CURIAM JUNE 9, 2015 CRAIG COUNTY DEPARTMENT

OF SOCIAL SERVICES

FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF CRAIG COUNTY Malfourd W. Trumbo, Judge (Kelli C. Boyer; Boyer Law, PLC, on brief), for appellant.

(I. Ray Byrd, Jr.; Diana M. Perkinson, Guardian ad litem for the minor child; Law Office of I. Ray Byrd, Jr., P.C.; Perkinson Law Office, on brief), for appellee.

On September 16, 2014, the trial court terminated the residual parental rights of Amanda J.

Carroll Brammer (appellant) to her son, J.W., pursuant to Code § 16.1-283(B) and 16.1-283(C)(2).

In her assignment of error on appeal, appellant alleges that the trial court erred in terminating her parental rights “when clear and convincing evidence was not proved that she was responsible for the conditions leading to her child being placed in foster care, and she had substantially complied with the remedial services given to her by the Craig County Department of Social Services.” Appellant thus challenges the termination of her parental rights under Code § 16.1-283(B), but not the

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Pursuant to Code § 17.1-413, this opinion is not designated for publication. termination under Code § 16.1-283(C)(2).1 Terminations under Code § 16.1-283(B) and the subsections of Code § 16.1-283(C) provide distinct, “individual bases upon which a petitioner may seek to terminate residual parental rights.” City of Newport News Dep’t of Soc. Servs. v. Winslow, 40 Va. App. 556, 563, 580 S.E.2d 463, 466 (2003). Appellant’s failure to challenge the termination under Code § 16.1-283(C)(2) renders moot her claim regarding the termination under Code § 16.1-283(B), and we need not consider it. See id. at 563, 580 S.E.2d at 466.

Thus, upon reviewing the record and briefs of the parties, we conclude this appeal is without merit. Accordingly, we summarily affirm the decision of the trial court. See Rule 5A:27.

Affirmed.