Court Opinion

ID: 9773479
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 17:47:23.449533+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:54.309990
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On Motion for Rehearing.
In his motion for rehearing appellee complains of our original opinion and says that in any event we should reverse and remand *213this cause rather than reverse and render judgment.
In Leonard v. Leonard, Tex.Civ.App., 218 S.W.2d 296, 301 (cited in our original opinion) the Court said:
“Material change of conditions which will require a modification of a decree as to the custody of a child is ordinarily such as (1) Marriage of one of the parties. (2) Poisoning of the mind of the child by one of the parties. (3) One of the parties becoming an improper person for the custody. (4) Change in the home surroundings. (5) One of the parties becoming mean to the child, or some other similar material change of conditions.”
The only evidence of changed conditions of the parties and of the minors since the former decree shows (1) and (4) supra. However these changed conditions are not sufficient but the evidence must further show that changed conditions affect the welfare and best interest of the minors and require that the original decree be changed to serve such welfare and best interest. Our original opinion demonstrates that it was our opinion that there is no evidence to support this necessary issue. We remain of that opinion.
Appellant’s first point presented the issue of no evidence to support the trial court’s judgment, and we having so found it becomes our duty to render judgment. 3-B Tex.Jur. pp. 584-594.
The record shows that the cause has been fully developed. The parties were afforded a full hearing and were allowed to introduce all the evidence they desired. To remand the cause for another trial would leave the custody of the minors undetermined, would subject them to the experience of again hearing the past lives of their parents and themselves reviewed in court, and could not serve their welfare and best interest but, in our opinion, considering the ages of the minors, another trial would only tend to alienate their affections for the one or the other of their parents.
Frequent hearings as to custody of minors are to be frowned upon and not encouraged by the courts. Pearson v. Pearson, Tex.Civ.App., 195 S.W.2d 188.
As appears from that portion of the trial court’s judgment quoted in our original opinion the issue of changed conditions affecting the best interest of the minors since the Florida decree was tried but there is no evidence to support a finding of such changed conditions. The trial court abused his discretion in changing the custody of the minors from the mother to the father. Nichols v. Nichols, Tex.Civ.App., 247 S.W.2d 143, error ref. n.r.e.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.
Motion overruled.