T.M. v. M.D.B.

This petition raises important questions about the propriety of terminating the parental rights of a natural father, T.M., to satisfy the desire of the mother’s new husband to adopt the father’s child as his own. The natural father poses no danger to the welfare of his child, whose only supposed benefit from the termination of his father’s parental rights is that the child will be spared from learning of his true paternity until many years in the future.

Because I believe that the Court of Civil Appeals seriously erred in affirming the termination of T.M.’s parental rights, I respectfully…