Coble v. NCI Building Systems, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• determining that evidence was legally sufficient to support jury’s finding of substantial impairment
• noting Family Code section 151.131 does not require evidence of specific actions or omissions
• discussing evidence of parent’s specific actions and omissions in the distant past coupled with more recent failures during the case’s pendency that supported finding appointing parent would significantly impair the child’s physical health or emotional development
• “Since neither party objected to the instruction, we are bound to review the evidence in light of the instruction actually given.”
• “The law establishes a preference in favor of a child’s parents . . . providing that courts ‘shall’ appoint the child’s parent . . . as the child’s sole managing conservator . . . .”
• “We also consider the evidence that the child has bonded with [foster parents] in a stable 26 environment and the emotional harm that could result from the child’s separation from those who have cared for him most of his life . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).