In re N.T. CA4/1

facts” between the parties bearing on the best interests of Minor; (2) allegedly applied an incorrect legal standard in determining Minor’s best interest; and (3) granted the motion to quash the testimony of a family court services (FCS) counselor from the parties’ stayed dissolution case and to exclude the counselor’s confidential FCS report. As we explain, we conclude the juvenile court did not err in refusing to appoint a new family investigator because the investigator’s report, as supplemented, met all statutory requirements and any purported deficiency in the report went to the weight of the evidence. We also conclude the court did not apply an incorrect legal standard in determining Minor’s best interests and properly exercised its discretion in granting the motion to quash. We therefore affirm the August 8 Final Ruling and Order.

All further undesignated statutory references are to the Family Code.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND3

A. Overview Mother and Father married in 2004 and had one child, Minor, who was born in 2013. Mother filed for divorce in 2015, which proceeded in family court and resulted in a status-only dissolution judgment in 2016. That same…