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  • In the Interest of DT

    Publication Date: 2019-12-30
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Burgess
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 06-19-00064-CV

    The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services filed a petition to terminate mother's parental rights to her child and a jury found grounds for termination existed and that termination was in the child's best interest.

  • Sandoval v. Martinez

    Publication Date: 2019-12-30
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Evidence | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Radack
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 01-18-00587-CV

    The trial court modified the parent-child relationship, which removed appellant, mother, and appellee, father, as joint managing conservators of their minor son, and made father the sole managing conservator and mother the possessory conservator.

  • In the interest of CVL

    Publication Date: 2019-12-30
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Evidence | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Partida-Kipness
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 05-19-00506-CV

    Father challenged the trial court's decree terminating his parental rights to his daughter, C.V.L.

  • In the Interest of SJH

    Publication Date: 2019-12-23
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Family Law | Native American Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Rodriguez
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 08-19-00182-CV

    In this parental rights termination case, the father, who claimed Indian ancestry through three tribes, voluntarily relinquished his parental rights to S.J.H. Mother, who did not claim Indian ancestry, had her parental rights to S.J.H. involuntarily terminated by the trial court.

  • In re JO

    Publication Date: 2019-12-23
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Martinez
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 04-19-00381-CV

    The adoptive mother of J.O.'s half-brother, Langford, challenged the trial court's termination order, and argued that the relief the associate judge ordered (1) did not comport with the pleadings and was void insofar as it ordered the Department of Family Protective Services to proceed with permanency of J.O. with another foster family, the Rodriguezes, and ordered the department to process J.O.'s adoption by the Rodriguezes' because the relief was not pled or tried by consent; (2) improperly limited the department's managing conserva

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  • JG v. Texas Dept of Family

    Publication Date: 2019-12-16
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Smith
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 03-19-00447-CV

    Two children were removed from their mother's care due to her drug use, selling drugs from her home, and general neglect of the children's basic needs.

  • Chacon v. Gribble

    Publication Date: 2019-12-09
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Kelly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 03-18-00737-CV

    J.L.C. was born in 2016 and within months, the Attorney General filed a petition to establish the parent-child relationship, alleging appellee mother's then-husband and the presumed father was not the biological father and that appellant, with whom appellee had an extra-marital relationship, was the biological father.

  • In the Matter of BJHB

    Publication Date: 2019-11-25
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Perkes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 13-18-00135-CV

    B.J.H.B was born in 2000. When he was 16, the State filed its original petition alleging he had engaged in delinquent conduct by committing the felony offense of sexual assault of a child when he was fourteen years old.

  • In the Interest of JF II

    Publication Date: 2019-11-18
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Constitutional Law | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Pirtle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 07-19-00174-CV

    The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services filed a petition for protection, conservatorship, and termination of mother's parental rights over a child who tested positive for amphetamines at his birth.

  • In the Interest of ALR

    Publication Date: 2019-11-18
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Chapa
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 04-19-00349-CV

    A.L.R. was born in 2018 to father J.R. and mother E.B. A month later, the Department of Family and Protective Services filed a petition for conservatorship and for termination of father's parental rights based on an open case related to mother's three other children and allegations of abuse and neglect made against both mother and father.