TABLE OF AUTHORITIES & CONSTITUTIONAL MANDATES

Fourteenth Amendment substantive due process; fit-parent presumption; fundamental liberty interest of fit parents in child care, custody, and control cannot be bypassed by judicial best-interest balancing.

Freedom of personal choice in family life; fit parent presumption remains intact until sovereign state meets strict burden of proof of severe harm.

Judicial immunity applies only to adjudicative acts; judges acting in executive, administrative, or policy-enforcement roles carry zero judicial immunity.

Judicial enforcement of private litigation constitutes state action bound by Fourteenth Amendment guarantees.

Best interests of the child standard cannot override constitutional protections or justify disparate classification.

Illegitimacy and bastardy jurisprudence; unconstitutional to penalize or diminish children's legal rights based on the marital status of their parents.

Texas Supreme Court holding that the fit-parent presumption is constitutionally mandated by Fourteenth Amendment due process in any child custody proceeding.

Non-exhaustive statutory factors for determining child best interests; cannot supersede constitutional limits on judicial power.

Definition of abuse of discretion: acting arbitrarily, unreasonably, or without reference to guiding legal rules and principles.

Courts must enforce statutory language as written without reading words into statutes or judicially rewriting policy.

Official admission by Attorney General Greg Abbott that child support Title IV-D proceedings violate separation of powers and equal protection principles when unconstitutional procedures are enforced.