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IN RE N.L.T.

Nos. 05-13-00692-CV, 05-13-00693-CV.

420 S.W.3d 469 (2014)

In the Interest of N.L.T., A Child. In the Interest of M.T., A Child.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

January 15, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dorothea E. Hopkins-Laster , Hopkins-Laster Law Office, Corinth, for Appellants.

Laura Anne Coats , Asst. Dist. Atty., Craig Watkins, Henry Voegtle III , Donald Ray Davis , Sylvia Ann Cantu , Jim Cobb , Dallas, for Appellees.

Susie Collins , Dallas, Respondent.

Pamela Isaacson , Dallas, Ad Litem.

Before Justices FRANCIS and LANG-MIERS, and Chief Justice THOMAS, Ret.

OPINION

Opinion by Chief Justice THOMAS (Retired).

In September 1987, sixteen-year-old S.T. (Mother), unrepresented by counsel, had a default judgment rendered against her terminating her parental rights to her ten-month-old daughter. More than twenty-five years later, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services relied on that default judgment as the sole substantive ground for terminating Mother's parental rights to her two children, N.L.T. ...

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