CORNELIUS, Chief Justice.
Merlin Wayne Standard, a resident of the State of Louisiana, petitioned the District Court of Cass County, Texas, to terminate the parent-child relationship existing between his alleged common-law wife, Terry Mae Bledsoe, and her child, Richard Dwayne Standard. The petition alleged that Standard was the child's natural father and that in May of 1979 Ms. Bledsoe took the child to Kildare, Texas, and left him with her brother and sister-in...
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