Shapley v. Texas Department of Human Resources

OPINION

WARD, Justice.

The natural mother alone appeals from a judgment which terminated the parental rights of the mother and father of their eighteen-month-old child, the judgment naming the Texas Department of Human Resources as the temporary managing conservator. The father’s physical abuse of the child triggered the proceedings. We reverse and remand.

The testimony in the case concerning the parties is limited. The child was born in Michigan in early 1976. At that time the child’s mother, Vicki Shapley, then approximately seventeen years old, was living with her own mother. Wayne Shapley,…