Title: Zerhi v. DeLeon
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 517, 2018
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: December 19, 2018

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
JASMINE ZERHI,1 
 
Respondent Below, 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
ADAM DELEON, 
 
Petitioners Below, 
Appellees. 
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§  No. 517, 2018 
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§  Court Below—Family Court 
§  of the State of Delaware  
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§  File No. CN17-01557 
§  Petition No. 18-00804 
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Submitted: December 7, 2018  
 
 
 
 
  Decided: December 19, 2018 
 
ORDER 
 
(1) 
On October 5, 2018 the appellant filed a notice of appeal from a Family 
Court custody order dated and docketed on August 20, 2018.  A timely notice of 
appeal was due by September 19, 2018.2  On October 24, 2018, the Senior Court 
Clerk issued, by certified mail to the address the appellant had provided, a notice 
directing the appellant to show cause why this appeal should not be dismissed as 
untimely filed.  The certified notice to show cause was returned to the Court in an 
envelope marked “Return to Sender, Unclaimed, Unable to Forward.”  On 
November 26, 2018, the notice to show cause was re-sent by first class mail.  The 
                                                 
1 The Court previously assigned pseudonyms to the appellants under Supreme Court Rule 7(d). 
2 Supr. Ct. R. 6(a)(i) (providing that notice of appeal must be filed within thirty days after entry of 
the judgment). 
2 
 
appellant has failed to respond to the notice show cause within the required ten-day 
period.  Under these circumstances, dismissal of this appeal is deemed to be 
unopposed. 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, under Supreme Court 
Rules 3(b)(2) and 29(b), that this appeal is DISMISSED. 
BY THE COURT: 
 
/s/ Karen L. Valihura 
Justice