MATTER OF MARRIAGE OF BURRELL

No. 07-87-0059-CV.

747 S.W.2d 479 (1988)

In the Matter of the MARRIAGE OF Robert D. BURRELL and Katherine Ruth Burrell.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Amarillo.

Rehearing Denied April 4, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O.M. Calhoun, Hinkle, Cox, Eaton, Coffield & Hensley, Amarillo, for appellant.

Mark M. Buzzard, Buzzard Law Firm, Pampa, for appellee.

Before REYNOLDS, C.J., and DODSON and BOYD, JJ.


REYNOLDS, Chief Justice.

This appeal requires us to determine whether in a divorce action filed after the spouses' mentally retarded daughter became 18 years of age, the trial court had jurisdiction to order, as the court did, a parent to contribute monetarily to the support of the mentally retarded adult daughter. We conclude that the court has not been invested with that jurisdiction in a divorce proceeding. Affirmed in part; reversed and rendered in part.

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