Legal Opinion
Moore v. Sims
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 11, 1979No. 78-6PublishedCited by 1,335 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Rehnquist
Title 2 of the Texas Family Code was enacted in 1973 and first went into effect on January 1, 1974. It was amended substantially in the following year. The Title defines the contours of the parent-child relationship and the permissible areas and modes of state intervention. This suit presents the first broad constitutional challenge to interrelated parts of that statutory scheme. It raises novel constitutional questions of the correlative rights and duties of parents, children, and the State in suits affecting the parent-child relationship.
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