Barfield v. White

BRADY, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered after a jury trial in which appellant’s parent-child relationship with his five-year-old daughter was terminated because of his failure to contribute to the child’s support. Because of our disposition of this cause, we only need to consider one of appellant’s fifteen points of error — the failure of the trial court to appoint a guardian ad litem as required by Tex.Fam.Code Ann. Sec. 11.-10(a) (1975).

The parties were divorced in 1977. The decree named appellee the managing conservator and ordered appellant to pay seventy dollars per…