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IN INTEREST OF FERGUSON

No. 06-96-00030-CV.

927 S.W.2d 766 (1996)

In the Interest of Mark William FERGUSON and Randi Elizabeth Ferguson, minor children.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Texarkana.

Decided July 30, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Diane M. Fitzpatrick, Longview, for appellant.

John G. Troy, Jr., Longview, for appellee.

Before CORNELIUS, C.J., and GRANT and STARR, JJ.

OPINION

CORNELIUS, Chief Justice.

The principal question we must decide in this appeal is whether the statutory presumption favoring the appointment of a parent as managing conservator of a child controls over the requirements to modify a custody decree in a proceeding by a noncustodial parent against nonparents to regain custody of the child. We conclude that it does not.

Deana Ferguson (now Wiener) and Eric Ferguson were married in 1988 and had...

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