Court Opinion

ID: 9648637
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 14:31:07.969699+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:07:42.011381
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CANNON, Justice,
concurring.
I respectfully concur only in the result of the majority opinion. The record on appeal to this court does not contain a statement of facts of the testimony taken at the custody hearing held on March 20, 1990. Without a complete record of this testimony, we are unable to determine the basis for the trial court’s conclusion that it is was in the best interest of the child to remain in the custody of her paternal grandmother. The Texas Family Code requires that an award of conservatorship to a nonparent must not only be in the best interest of the child but the court must also find that to award custody to a parent would place the child in substantial danger of physical or emotional harm. Tex.Fam.Code Ann. § 14.01(b) (Vernon Supp.1992). Therefore, we cannot uphold an award of managerial conservatorship without a record of the testimony at the custody hearing or a Finding of Fact by the trial court to support an award of conservator-ship to a nonparent. In addition, as the majority finds, no pleadings were filed on behalf of the paternal grandmother and she was therefore not a proper party before the court.