Arnell Ronald Manning, Jr. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services

TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN NO. 03-04-00451-CV Arnell Ronald Manning, Jr., Appellant v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Appellee FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF TRAVIS COUNTY, 353RD JUDICIAL DISTRICT NO. FM3-00781, HONORABLE CHARLES CAMPBELL, JUDGE PRESIDING MEMORANDUM OPINION This is an appeal from a final order terminating appellant Arnell Manning’s parental rights to a child, J.M., he fathered with Lynell Phelps.1 See

Tex. Fam. Code Ann. § 161.001(1), (2) (West 2002). J.M. and seven other children of Phelps were removed after the eighth child was found…