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Supreme Court of Texas


Powell v. Hon. Judge Earl Stover, 03-1154

In a child-custody case, Texas is not the child's "home state" since he lived in Tennessee with his parents for at least six consecutive months immediately before the child-custody proceeding was commenced.

Appellate Information

  • Decided 05/27/2005
  • Published 05/27/2005

Judges

  • Justice O'NEILL delivered the opinion of the Court.

Court

  • Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

  • For Appellant:
  • Jack Lawrence, Beaumont, Robert Larry Brooke, Silsbee, and Richard A. Spivey, Kingsport, TN, for petitioner., Ben K. Wexler, Greenville, TN, pro se.

  • For Appellees:
  • Martha Bevil Wright, Silsbee, for respondent.
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