Yancey v. Koonce

OPINION

WARD, Justice.

This is a child custody case which arose after the natural mother, as the Managing Conservator of the child, consented to the modification. Three parties, the Appellant father, the Appellant paternal grandparents and the Appellee maternal grandparents, all sought custody of the child. Trial was to the jury on the one issue as to whom should be appointed Managing Conservator, and the jury selected the maternal grandparents. We affirm.

Brandon, the subject of this suit, was born May 23,1978. He had come to live in El Paso in the home of the Appellees Johnny and Della Koonce,…