Sisk v. Duck

COULSON, Justice.

This appeal is from a divorce decree appointing appellee, Alvin K. Duck, III (Duck), managing conservator of his minor son, Christopher Allen Duck (Chris) and denying the request of the boy’s maternal grandparents that the parental rights of both parents be terminated and that they be allowed to adopt Chris. The controlling issue is whether the minor child was adequately represented at the trial. We hold that he was not.

The Sisks filed suit in Harris County asking that the parent-child relationship between Chris and each of his parents be terminated and that the Sisks be…