A person, licensed child-placing agency, or the Department of Family and Protective Services designated managing conservator of a child in an irrevocable or unrevoked affidavit of relinquishment has a right to possession of the child superior to the right of the person executing the affidavit, the right to consent to medical, surgical, dental, and psychological treatment of the child, and the rights and duties given by Chapter 153 to a possessory conservator until such time as these rights and duties are modified or terminated by court order.
Tex. Fam. Code § 161.104
RIGHTS OF DESIGNATED MANAGING CONSERVATOR PENDING COURT APPOINTMENT
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Sims v. Adoption Alliance (1996)
Most recently applied in in the Interest of E.J.R., a Child (September 2016)
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, Sec. 1, eff
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Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.