Supreme Court of Texas

In circumstances where the trial court has found a parent as conservator would significantly impair a child's physical/emotional development and that appointment of the Department of Family and Protective Services is in the child's best interest, a termination judgment's reversal on an unchallenged conservatorship appointment does not affect the trial court's conservatorship appointment absent assigned error.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/02/2007
• Published 11/02/2007

Judges

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

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael A. Stafford, Harris County Atty., Sandra D. Hachem, Harris County Sr. Asst. Atty., and Francesca Anna Aguirre-Saldana, Houston, for Petitioner., Thomas D. Montgomery, Houston, for Party In Interest., William M. Thursland, Law Office of William M. Thursland, Houston, for Party In Interest.


• For Appellees:
  
• Evan B. Glick, William B. Connolly and William Leslie Shireman, William B. Connolly & Associates, Houston, for Respondent.