In Re Department of Family & Protective Services

Chief Justice JEFFERSON, Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice GREEN, and Justice WILLETT joined.

The Department of Family and Protective Services brought this parental-rights termination case and was appointed temporary managing conservator of two children. The trial court ordered the mother’s parental rights terminated before the one-year dismissal date prescribed by the Family Code, but then, after the dismissal date, granted the mother’s motion for new trial. The trial court neither rendered another final order nor entered an extension order, and the mother moved to dismiss the case more than…