Chapa v. Betts

Relator being denied the right to intervene in a proceeding in district court to terminate a parent-child relationship, petitioned this Court on February 23, 1976, for leave to file her application for writ of mandamus to require the trial court to set aside an illegal order denying Relator right of intervention and a hearing. Petition was granted and hearing on application for mandamus set for 9 o’clock a. m. on February 25, 1976.

Upon hearing before this Court, it appears that intervention sought below was grounded on Relator’s interest in the child, by reason of having actual and continuous…