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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Usman finds the lower court properly terminated the parental rights of a mother to her two children on grounds of abandonment by failure to visit, abandonment by failure to support, failure to manifest an ability and willingness to assume custody, and that it is in the children’s best interest. The mother and father have been divorced for over a decade, and the children have lived exclusively with their father and stepmother since 2009. The lower court found the mother’s employment history to be spotty, she lacked stable housing, and has been in a violent relationship with a boyfriend for approximately nine years. The lower court did not err in its decision to terminate the parental rights of the mother and grant stepparent adoption to the stepmother. Affirmed.