DOYLE v. TEXAS DEPT. OF PRO. AND REG. SERV.

No. 08-99-00037-CV.

16 S.W.3d 390 (2000)

Joyce Marie DOYLE, Appellant, v. THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PROTECTIVE AND REGULATORY SERVICES, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, El Paso.

Rehearing Overruled May 3, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mara Asya Blatt, Law Offices of Mara Asya Blatt, Stuart L. Leeds, El Paso, for Appellant.

Maria B. Ramirez, Jose R. Rodriguez, County Atty., Michael J. Alvarez, El Paso, for Appellee.

Before Panel No. 4 BARAJAS, C.J., LARSEN, and McCLURE, JJ.


OPINION

ANN CRAWFORD McCLURE, Justice.

"Now this Court is faced with the question of, should a person sell their parental rights for a monthly adoption subsidy? And what price should a person put on their parental rights?"

With these words, trial counsel for Joyce Marie Doyle set the stage in defense of this suit to terminate her parental rights to T.D. and J.D., two of her four children. Finding the evidence legally insufficient to support...

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