PETERSON v. PETERSON

No. 16205.

502 S.W.2d 178 (1973)

Lee PETERSON, Appellant, v. Mary Beth PETERSON, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston (1st Dist.).

November 8, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Smith & Johnson, Rachel Johnson, Pasadena, for appellant.

Phillip L. Cyphers, Pasadena, Donald A. Thiel, Houston, attorney ad litem, for appellee.


EVANS, Justice.

This case involves a fundamental question of the trial court's authority to appoint a guardian ad litem in a divorce action involving the issue of custody and to tax the ad litem fees as costs.

Appellant, Lee Peterson, the defendant and cross-plaintiff, complains in his first two points of error that the trial court committed fundamental error in making the children parties to the divorce action by appointing the "attorney ad litem" to represent...

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