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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Usman finds the lower court properly terminated the parental rights of a mother to her three minor children on grounds of abandonment by failure to visit, abandonment by failure to support, abandonment by failure to provide a suitable home, substantial noncompliance with a permanency plan, persistent conditions, failure to manifest an ability and willingness to assume custody, and that it is in the children’s best interests. The children were removed from the mother’s care after the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services received a referral regarding the children’s living conditions and mother’s drug use. Because the mother failed to establish a stable residence, did not comply with the permanency plan, and continued using drugs, her parental rights were ultimately terminated, with all grounds of termination sufficiently supported by evidence. Affirmed.