APPELLATE COURT OPINIONS

The appellees filed a petition in chancery court seeking to terminate a father’s parental rights. After a bench trial, the trial court granted the petition and entered an order terminating the father’s parental rights based on the grounds of (1) failure to manifest an ability and willingness to assume custody, (2) abandonment by failure to visit, and (3) abandonment by failure to support. The trial court also determined that termination of the father’s parental rights was in the child’s best interests. We affirm the trial court’s ruling as to the first ground, we vacate the trial court’s ruling as to the second and third grounds, and we affirm the trial court’s ruling as to best interests. Consequently, we affirm the trial court’s overall ruling that the father’s parental rights must be terminated.