Ranier v. Brown

COLEMAN, Chief Justice.

This original proceeding for mandamus was brought by relators, Ronald Rainer and his wife Alice Rainer, to compel the Honorable Sidney Brown, Judge of the 328th District Court of Fort Bend County, Texas, to approve relators’ affidavit of inability to pay costs of appeal.

Alice Rainer is the mother of six children. Ronald Rainer is the father of four of these children. A final judgment terminating the parent/child relationship between Ronald and Alice Rainer and the six children was rendered by the Honorable Sidney Brown, respondent. The relators undertook an appeal from…