In re T.E.R.

|TThe issue in this litigation is whether an attorney representing the mother may be appointed by the trial court to bring an action to terminate the father’s parental rights. The mother obtained an ex parte order appointing her own attorney as special counsel to file the petition to terminate the father’s parental rights to the two minor children.

The father responded with a peremptory exception of no right of action, which was overruled by the trial court on October 9, 2007. On the father’s writ application, this court granted and docketed the matter for a ruling. We reverse the trial…