Opinion issued June 13, 2013

In The 

## Court of Appeals For The 

## First District of Texas

———————————— NO. 01 - 13 - 00268 - CV

——————————— IN THE INTEREST OF M .F. , A CHILD
On Appeal from the 315 th District Court

Harris County, Texas Trial Court Ca se No. 2010 - 0 5847 J 1
MEMORANDUM OPINION Appellant, Valeria Sanchez a/k/a Valeria Anne Youngblood a/k/a Valeria Ash, attempts to bring a second appeal from the trial court’s “Agreed Order Modifying Prior Order and Decree in Suit Affecting the Parent

- Child Relationship,” signed March 12, 2012. The order grants sole managing
1 On October 11, 2010, the trial court ordered that the filing s in cause number 2010

- 05098J and in cause number 2010

- 05847J be cons olidat ed under , and that all future filings be captioned under, the latter cause number
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conservatorship of the minor child made the subject of this suit to the Department of Family and Protect ive Services. We dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction. A ppellant’s previous appeal from the trial court’s March 12, 2012 order was dismissed on appellant’s motion
. See I n re M.F. , No. 01

- 12

- 00374

- CV, 2012 WL 4038451 , at *1 (Tex. App.

— Houston [ 1 s t Dist. ] Sep t . 13, 2012 , no pet. ) (mem. op. )
. Appellant is not entitled to a second appeal from the trial court’s March 12, 2012 order
. Moreover, appellant’s pro se notice of app eal filed March 27, 2013 was not timel y filed. An a

ppeal in a child protection case, as here, is accelerated. See T EX . F AM . C ODE A NN . §
. 109.002(a) (West Supp. 2012 ) ; T EX . R. A PP . P. 2 8.4(a)
. In an accelerated appeal, absent a mo tion to extend time under Rule of Appellate Procedure 26.3 , “the deadline for filing a notice of appeal is strictly set at twenty days after the judgment is signed , with no exceptions. . . .” In re K.A.F ., 160 S.W.3d 923, 927 (Tex. 2005); see T EX . R. A PP . P. 26.1(b), 26.3
. “ Filing a motion for new tria l, any other post

- trial motion , or a request f or findings of fact will not extend the time to perfect an accelerated appeal. ” T EX . R. A PP . P. 28.1( b). The time to file a notice of appeal from the trial court’s March 12, 2012 order in this case expired on April 2, 2012. S ee T EX . R. A PP . P. 26.1(b)
. Appellant ’s notice of appeal filed a year later, on March 27, 2013 , was not timely filed
. S e e id .; K.A.F ., 160 S.W.3d at 927
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Because w e lack jurisdiction over the attempted appeal , we must dismiss the appeal. See K.A.F ., 160 S.W.3d at 928 ( affirming dismissal of appeal in parental termination ca se when notice of appeal was untimely ); see also In re J.G. , No. 01

- 11

- 00395

- CV, 2012 WL 3041311, at *1 (Tex. App.

— Houston [1st Di st.] July 6, 2012, no pet.) (mem. op. ) ( dismissing appeal in parental terminatio n ca se for want of jurisdiction because notice of appeal was untimely ). We notified appellant that her appeal was subject to dismissal unless she file d a written response demonstrating that this Court ha s jurisdiction over the appeal
. S ee T EX . R. A PP . P. 42.3(a ) (allowi ng involuntary dismissal of appeal after notice ). Appellant’s response does not show grounds for continuing the appeal
. Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction. See T EX . R. A PP . P. 42.3(a), 43.2(f). We dismiss any pending motions as moot. P ER CURI A M Panel consists of Justices Keyes, Higley, and Bland
.