Court Opinion

ID: 9818601
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 05:58:52.857692+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:46:22.986616
License: Public Domain

SUE WALKER, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the majority opinion’s disposition of this appeal. For the reasons set forth in my concurring opinion in In re A.J.M., 375 S.W.3d 599, 611-13 (Tex.App.Fort Worth 2012, no pet.) (op. on reh’g) (en banc) (Walker, J., concurring), I would hold that Father waived his sole issue on appeal by not including that issue in his statement of points and also by not making an as-applied challenge to former Texas Family Code section 263.405(i). See Act effective Sept. 1, 2005, 79th Leg., R.S., ch. 176, § 1, 2005 Tex. Gen. Laws 332, 332 (adding subsection (i), requiring statement of points, to section 263.405 of the family code), repealed by Act effective Sept. 1, 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., ch. 75, §§ 5, 8, 2011 Tex. Gen. Laws 348, 349 (deleting subsection (i) but noting that former section 263.405 remains in effect for final orders rendered before September 1, 2011). Accordingly, I would affirm the trial court’s termination order. Because the majority opinion affirms the trial court’s termination order on different grounds, I respectfully concur.
GABRIEL, J., joins.