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Polygamist hearing leaves many questions

SAN ANGELO, Texas, June 25 (UPI) -- A Texas court heard five hours of debate on a judge's alleged bias, an attorney's conduct and if a teenager from a polygamous sect could make her own decisions.

Girl returns -- but no contact with father

SAN ANGELO, Texas, June 4 (UPI) -- A Texas polygamist sect leader is banned from contact with his 16-year-old daughter under a special order signed Tuesday that allows her to return home

Judge frees children of polygamists

ELDORADO, Texas, June 2 (UPI) -- A Texas judge signed an order Monday for the immediate release of hundreds of children seized during a raid on a ranch owned by a polygamist sect.

Polygamists' kids return on hold

AUSTIN, Texas, May 30 (UPI) -- An agreement to return some children to a West Texas polygamist ranch ran into a snag late Friday when a lawyer objected, the Houston Chronicle said.

Court: Polygamists kid seizures illegal

AUSTIN, Texas, May 29 (UPI) -- The Texas Supreme Court Thursday said the state had no right to remove more than 400 children from their parents custody in a raid on a polygamist sect.

State appeals ruling on polygamist raid

AUSTIN, Texas, May 23 (UPI) -- Texas officials asked the state Supreme Court for an emergency stay to prevent the immediate return of hundreds of children seized from a polygamist sect.

Court says Texas wrong to take children

SAN ANGELO, Texas, May 22 (UPI) -- Texas state agencies seized children from a polygamist compound without any proof that they were in "imminent enough" danger, a state appeals court ruled.

Polygamist mothers seek return of children

AUSTIN, Texas, May 2 (UPI) -- Mothers of children taken from the polygamist compound near San Angelo, Texas, have asked for their return, court documents show.

Judge leaves children in state custody

SAN ANGELO, Texas, April 19 (UPI) -- Texas child welfare officials praised a decision that left the 416 children of a West Texas polygamist sect in state custody for at least more six weeks.

Judge orders foster care for ranch kids

SAN ANGELO, Texas, April 18 (UPI) -- The 416 children found at a Texas ranch belonging to a polygamist sect must be placed in foster care, a judge ruled late Friday.

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