Leal v. Texas Department of Protective & Regulatory Services

How courts have described this case

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• holding parent‘s challenge to Department‘s conservatorship appointment was subsumed in appeal of parental-rights termination order when Department was appointed conservator solely based on section 161.207 as a result of termination order
• mother endangered children by allowing access to medication that could have killed them if ingested
• clear and convincing is intermediate standard between lesser burden of preponderance of the evidence and greater standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt required in criminal proceedings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).