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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* ''Holick v. Smith'', 685 S.W.2d 18, [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=921242224883553191#p20 20] (Tex. 1985) (citations omitted) ("This natural parental right has been characterized as 'essential,' 'a basic civil right of man,' and 'far more precious than property rights.' A termination decree is complete, final, irrevocable and divests for all time that natural right as well as all legal rights, privileges, duties and powers . . . . Moreover, the evidence in support of termination must be clear and convincing before a court may involuntarily terminate a parent's rights. Consequently, termination proceedings should be strictly scrutinized, and involuntary termination statutes are strictly construed in favor of the parent.")</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* ''Holick v. Smith'', 685 S.W.2d 18, [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=921242224883553191#p20 20] (Tex. 1985) (citations omitted) ("This natural parental right has been characterized as 'essential,' 'a basic civil right of man,' and 'far more precious than property rights.' A termination decree is complete, final, irrevocable and divests for all time that natural right as well as all legal rights, privileges, duties and powers . . . . Moreover, the evidence in support of termination must be clear and convincing before a court may involuntarily terminate a parent's rights. Consequently, termination proceedings should be strictly scrutinized, and involuntary termination statutes are strictly construed in favor of the parent.")</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* ''Byrne v. Love'', 14 Tex. 81, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/014_Tex_81.pdf#page=10 91] (1855) ("There is no a and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">afather doubt </del>guardian, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">especially </del>control, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nature</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as inthe guardian authority has by veryample</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* ''Byrne v. Love'', 14 Tex. 81, [https://texaslegalguide.com/images/014_Tex_81.pdf#page=10 91<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-92</ins>] (1855) ("There is no <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">doubt </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">guardian, </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">especially a father acting as </ins>guardian <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">by nature</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">has very ample authority in the </ins>control, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">management</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rearing </ins>and education <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of his </ins>children; <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that he may lease </ins>their lands until <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his death or until they </ins>arrive at the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">age </ins>of majority; <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that he </ins>may <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">place them for </ins>years <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">under the superintendence </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">control of </ins>others, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">where such </ins>act is not so <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">injurious </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </ins>infant <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">require </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">interposition </ins>of the Court, it cannot be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">disputed, </ins>either <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">by </ins>the infant or by others<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. All this he may do in perfect consistency with his right of guardianship, and his ultimate liability for the proceeds of the minor's property. But this is very different from an absolute transfer of his right of guardianship, and all control over the person and estate of the minor</ins>.")</div></td></tr>
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