In re Morris

OPINION

Kem Thompson Frost, Chief Justice

This mandamus proceeding stems from a family court’s refusal to render judgment on a mediated settlement agreement between two parents who agreed to rendition of an order terminating the mother’s parent-child relationship. We address as an issue of first impression whether such an agreement precludes a trial court from refusing to render judgment based on the plaintiffs failure to prove by clear and convincing evidence that termination would be in the child’s best interest. The relator, the adjudicated father of the child, asks this court to compel the…