BOYD v. TEXAS DEPT. OF HUMAN SERVICES

No. 14633.

715 S.W.2d 711 (1986)

William S. BOYD, Appellant, v. TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Austin.

Rehearing Denied September 24, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hal Hemstreet, Staff Counsel for Inmates, Texas Dept. of Corrections, Sugar Land, for appellant.

Ronald Earle, Dist. Atty., Rhonda G. Hurley, Asst. Dist. Atty., Austin, On Appeal Only, for Texas Dept. of Human Services.

Jo Betsy Lewallen, Richard Crozier, Hearne, Knolle, Lewallen, Livingston & Holcomb, Austin, for Cheryl Ann Arriola.

Before POWERS, BRADY and CARROLL, JJ.


POWERS, Justice.

The trial-court judgment terminates the parental rights of William S. Boyd in his daughter Cheryl, a statutory action for involuntary termination having been brought by the Department of Human Services. Tex.Fam.Code Ann. § 15.02 (Supp.1986). We will reverse the judgment of the trial court as to Boyd while affirming the judgment in all other respects.

Section 15.02 permits the trial court to terminate a person's parental rights if it finds...

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