Legal Opinion
In the Interest of S.M.H.
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided April 13, 2017No. 14-16-00566-CVPublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Tracy Christopher, Justice
This is an appeal from a final judgment in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship. The parties elected to submit their *786dispute to binding, arbitration, but after the arbitrator issued her. award, the trial court vacated the award upon finding that the arbitrator had exceeded her authority. The main issue presented to us is whether the trial court erred by issuing this vaca-tur. We conclude that it did. Although we agree that the arbitrator exceeded her authority, we believe that vacatur was not the correct remedy. Only a portion of the award was based…
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