Lutheran Social Service, Inc. v. Meyers

I respectfully dissent.

The majority opinion first assumes, without discussion, that the trial court has jurisdiction and then goes on to state: “[t]he question for decision is whether a district court has the power to order a duly licensed child-placement agency to deliver citation to the persons with whom they have placed a child for adoption, under Rule 106, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure.” In so stating the question the majority does not pass upon whether or not the great aunt and great uncle, who are strangers to any true adoption proceeding, have any standing to invoke the jurisdiction…