Estes v. Dallas County Child Welfare Unit of Texas Department of Human Services

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• holding that a pro se answer filed by alleged father, in which he claims to be an indigent parent and requests the appointment of an attorney, constitutes an admission of paternity
• holding that a pro se answer filed by alleged father, in which he claims to be an indigent parent and requests the appointment of an attorney, constitutes an admission of paternity
• holding that a pro se answer filed by alleged father, in which he claims to be an indigent parent and requests the appointment of an attorney, constitutes an admission of paternity
• drawing a distinction between a formal “statement of paternity” and an “admission of paternity”
• respondent describing “himself as an indigent parent” was sufficient to qualify as an admission of paternity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).