Ready v. Hughes

HALL, Justice.

On appellees’ petition, the trial court terminated the parent-child relationship between appellants and their infant daughter and granted adoption of the child by appel-lees, following a jury trial. We reverse the judgment and order the case dismissed, holding that appellees did not have standing to bring the suit.

The termination decree was based on special issue jury findings “by clear and convincing evidence” that (issues 1 and 5) appellants each voluntarily left the child in the possession of another not the parent and expressed an intent not to return; that (issues 2 and 6)…