In Re SAP

156 S.W.3d 574 (2005)

In the Interest of S.A.P.

No. 04-0473.

Supreme Court of Texas.

January 21, 2005.

Lana S. Shadwick, Houston, Leona Jaquette, Phoebe Ellis Knauer, Cathy Ann Morris, Austin, for Petitioner.

Charles L. Levy, Law Office of Charles Levy, Stanley Rentz, Nita C. Fanning, Law Office of Nita Fanning, Galen B. Edwards, Waco, for Respondents.

Based on a unanimous jury verdict, the trial court terminated the respondents' parent-child relationship with S.A.P., their one-year-old son. Based on an estoppel defense that was neither pleaded nor submitted to the jury, a divided court of appeals…