Diana Ziegler v. Tarrant County Child Welfare Unit

The Child Welfare Unit of the Texas Department of Human Resources brought this action against the natural mother of five children to terminate her parental relationship with her children. The suit also sought to terminate the parental rights of three different fathers of the five children. The mothers rights were terminated under TEX. FAM. CODE ANN. sec. 15.02 (Veinon Supp. 1984), the trial court finding that she knowingly placed or knowingly allowed the children to remain in conditions and surroundings which endangered their physical and emotional well-being and engaged in conduct or knowingly placed the children with persons who engaged in conduct which endangered the physical and emotional well-being of the children. The court also found that termination would be in the best interest of the children. The court also terminated the parental rights of Larry Keith McKinney, father of three of Zieglers children, and of Henry Clay Ziegler, father of Crystal Lynn Ziegler. The court further found in its judgment that the alleged father of Rex Allen Thompson was Ray Smith who had failed to establish any right or interest in or to the child, Rex Allen Thompson, and that the parent-child relationship between Ray Smith and Rex Allen Thompson does not exist in law or in fact.