Saturday, March 31, 2018

review of best-interest determinations NOT allowed following voluntary relinquishment

Following up on my last post, below, in In the Interest of K.S.L., a Child, the Texas Supreme Court reversed the Fourth Court of Appeals' Judgment, writing, "we think in the ordinary case a sworn, voluntary, and knowing relinquishment of parental rights [to a child], where the parent expressly attests that termination is in the child’s best interest, would satisfy a requirement that the trial court’s best-interest finding be supported under this higher standard of proof [clear and convincing evidence]."

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