Conservatorship of O.B.

Summary

The court held that appellate review of a finding subject to the clear-and-convincing-evidence standard must account for that heightened standard. The reviewing court must determine whether the record as a whole contains substantial evidence from which a reasonable factfinder could have found the fact highly probable, while viewing the evidence favorably to the prevailing party and deferring to credibility determinations and reasonable inferences. The court reversed the Court of Appeal and remanded for reconsideration under this standard.