Thompson v. Richey

STUART, Justice.

This Court granted the petition for the writ of certiorari in this child-visitation case to determine whether the Court of Civil Appeals’ no-opinion affirmance of the trial court’s order awarding the noncustodial father unsupervised visitation conflicts with prior decisions of that court. We find the decision is in conflict with prior decisions, and we reverse and remand.

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Emily Richey Thompson (“Thompson”) and Kristopher Eric Richey (“Richey”) met in 2001 and started dating shortly thereafter. In October 2001, Thompson became pregnant with the parties’ child, who was born on…