Legal Opinion
In the Interest of J.F.C.
Texas Supreme Court
Decided December 31, 2002No. 01-0571PublishedCited by 2,845 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Owen, joined by Chief Justice Phillips, Justice Hecht, Justice Jefferson, and Justice Smith
After a jury trial, the trial court in this case rendered a judgment terminating the rights of both the mother and father to three of their children. A divided court of appeals reversed and remanded, holding that omission of an instruction that termination must be in the children’s best interest from material parts of the jury charge was fundamental error that could be raised for the first time on appeal, and that the error probably caused rendition of an improper judgment.1 We hold that:
1) although the trial court’s charge was erroneous because it omitted the children’s best interest as a…
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