In re K.L.C.

OPINION

in which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice HECHT, Justice ENOCH, Justice ABBOTT, Justice HANKINSON, Justice O’NEILL and Justice GONZALES joined.

This juvenile case concerns whether the trial court’s failure to comply with section 54.03(b) of the Family Code was error and whether those errors require reversal. We hold that the trial court’s failure to satisfy section 54.03(b)(l)’s requirement that the court explain the allegations against the child was error but that it was harmless error in this case. We further hold that the trial court’s incomplete explanation regarding the…