In re C.T.

In November 2013, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services removed a child .from the relators’ care and custody under an emergency order. More than two years later, the child remains in the Department’s custody even though the mandamus record is devoid of evidence supporting the limited statutory grounds allowing the Department to retain conservatorship following an emergency removal, and even though trial on the Department’s conservatorship petition did not commence before expiration of a statutorily mandated dismissal deadline applicable to Department-filed conservatorship…