R. B., the biological father of T. B., appeals an order terminating his parental rights. He contends that the trial court erred in terminating his rights without requiring the Henry County Department of Children Services DFACS to establish any type of case plan for him in light of the requirement on DFACS to make reasonable efforts to preserve and reunify a family. He also claims that the record lacks sufficient clear and convincing evidence to enable a rational trier of fact to find a likelihood of further deprivation of T. B. and also to find actual desertion on his part accompanied by an intent to sever his parental relationship. Having determined that these claims are devoid of merit, we affirm. In considering a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence in a parental termination of rights case, the evidence must be reviewed in the light most favorable to the juvenile court’s determination. In the Interest of D. B. , 242 Ga. App. 763 531 SE2d 172 2000. When the evidence shows that any rational trier of fact could have found by clear and convincing evidence that the natural parent’s rights have been lost, we defer to the juvenile court’s factfinding. Id.
So considered, the evidence shows that for the first four years of her life, T. B. lived with both biological parents. In 1998, when T. B. was about four, her mother left home, taking T. B. with her. For the next four years, R. B., her biological father, had no contact with T. B., his daughter. In September 1999, the Whitfield County DFACS assumed custody of T. B. as a result of her mother’s drug abuse and neglect of her. Between September 1999 and January 2001, T. B. remained in state custody and the whereabouts of R. B. could not be ascertained. In January 2001, T. B. was reunited with her mother. But, in November 2001, when the Henry County DFACS learned that T. B.’s mother had married a convicted sex offender, it obtained emergency custody of T. B., by then age seven. Thereafter, the Henry County DFACS filed a petition to terminate the parental rights of both of T. B.’s parents.
