Coleman v. Texas State Department of Public Welfare

DUNAGAN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment terminating the parent-child relationship between the appellant, Martha Pittman Coleman and the natural father, Donald Ray Coleman, and the child made the subject of this suit below, Jermaine Coleman, and appointing the Supervisor of the Rusk County Child Welfare, Texas Department of Public Welfare, managing conservator of said child. Donald Ray Coleman did not appeal.

The appellee filed its petition to terminate the parent-child relationship on March 3, 1976. Appellee’s supervisor was appointed temporary managing conservator of the…