Court Opinion

ID: 9818600
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 05:58:52.85584+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:46:21.670314
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LEE ANN DAUPHINOT, Justice,
concurring.
I agree with the majority’s conclusion that the trial court did not abuse its discretion by appointing the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services as E.P.C.’s permanent managing conservator. I further agree that the trial court’s judgment should be affirmed. But for the reasons expressed in my dissenting and concurring opinion in In re A.J.M.,1 I believe that J.B.C. (Father) forfeited his con-elusory sufficiency issue.
In his sole issue, Father contends that the evidence is legally and factually insufficient to support the trial court’s endanger-rrient and best interest findings. In his timely-filed statement of points, Father stated,
A new trial should be granted to [Father] because the evidence is legally and factually insufficient to support this Court’s judgment. Specifically, the evidence is legally and factually insufficient to support this Court’s judgment in that the State produced insufficient evidence to justify the termination of [Father’s] parentalrights.
Former section 263.405(i) provided that “a claim that a judicial decision is contrary to the evidence or that the evidence is factually or legally insufficient is not suffi*689ciently specific to preserve an issue for appeal.”2 Based on the reasoning of my dissenting and concurring opinion in In re A.J.M.,31 believe that Father forfeited his issue.

. See 375 S.W.3d 599, 614-16 (Tex.App.-Fort Worth 2012, no pet. h.) (op. on reh’g) (en banc) (Dauphinot, J., dissenting and concurring).

. 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 Laws 332, 332 (adding subsection (i), requiring statement of points, to section 263.405 of the family code), repealed by Act effective Sept. 1, 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., ch. 75, §§ 5, 8, 2011 Tex.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, including subsection (i), is still in effect for final orders rendered before September 1, 2011).

. See 375 S.W.3d at 614-16.