Woodard v. Texas Department of Human Resources

REYNOLDS, Justice.

Judgment terminating a parent-child relationship was rendered upon a jury’s findings of factual issues from a preponderance of the evidence as required by the Texas Family Code. The standard of proof is challenged as being fundamentally erroneous because a federal district court has declared that the Code-required standard of proof is unconstitutional and that the proof must be measured by the clear and convincing standard. We affirm under the Texas Supreme Court’s direction that in civil cases issues of fact are resolved from, and may not be submitted to the jury requiring…