Whitehead v. Whitehead

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

We withdraw our former opinions handed down March 6, 1986, and herewith substitute the following.

After a jury trial, the court below entered an order appointing Emily B. Whitehead sole managing conservator of the minor children, Britney and Will. The original divorce decree provided that Emily and her husband, Bruce, were appointed as joint managing conservators of the minor children.

TEX.FAM. CODE ANN. sec. U.08 (Vernon Pamph Supp.1986) provides the exclusive method to modify prior final orders relating to the conservatorship of a child, as follows:

“(c) After a hearing,…