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IN RE J.C.B.

No. 07-06-0088-CV.

209 S.W.3d 821 (2006)

In the Interest of J.C.B.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Amarillo.

November 29, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey T. Jones, Holt & Fields, Pampa, for appellant.

Lana S. Shadwick, Texas Department of Family & Protective Services, Houston, for appellee.

Charles L. Kessie, Jackson & Kessie, Canadian, attorney ad litem.

J. Kenny Norris, Perryton, for real party in interest.

Before QUINN, C.J., and CAMPBELL and PIRTLE, JJ.

OPINION

BRIAN QUINN, Chief Justice.

Richard Phillip Beats appeals from an order terminating his parental relationship with his child, J.C.B. The sole issue before us concerns the trial court's subject matter jurisdiction to order termination. He argues that it had no such authority given that the home state of J.C.B. lay outside of Texas. Nor did statute investing Texas courts with authority to assume "temporary emergency jurisdiction" over children...

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