TX :: Child Protective Services Handbook :: 5500 From Status Hearing to the Final Hearing :: 5564.18 Mental Illness

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It is a ground for termination of parental rights: if:

  •   a parent has a mental or emotional illness that makes the parent unable to provide for the child’s physical, emotional, and mental needs; and 

  •   the illness will, in all reasonable probability, continue until the child’s 18th birthday.

Texas Family Code §161.003External Link


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