IN RE E.N.C.

No. 11-0713.

384 S.W.3d 796 (2012)

In the Interest of E.N.C., J.A.C., S.A.L., N.A.G. and C.G.L., Minor Children.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided October 12, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary L. Waite , Judy Hodgkiss, The Moore Law Firm, LLP, Paris, TX, for Petitioner Edna Melissa Lopez.

Edward Ellis , Ellis & Tidwell, L.L.P., Judy Hodgkiss , The Moore Law Firm, Paris, TX, for Petitioner Francisco Lopez.

Clayten Howard Hearrell , Jill Miller Drake , Lamar County District Attorney's Office, Paris, TX, Cynthia Ann Morales , Luisa P. Marrero , Michael C. Shulman , Susan Marie Wolfe , and Trevor Allen Woodruff , TX Dept. of Family & Protective Svcs., Austin, TX, for The State of Texas.


Justice GREEN delivered the opinion of the Court.

A court cannot terminate a person's parental rights unless the State proves by clear and convincing evidence that the parent engaged in certain proscribed conduct, as specified in the Family Code, and that termination is in the best interest of the children. In this case, an immigrant convicted in another state of unlawful conduct with a minor and given a probated sentence years before his children were born was later...

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