Title: Smith v. Tiller
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 23, 2007
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: February 13, 2007

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
FREDERICK W. SMITH, JR., 
 
Petitioner Below- 
Appellant, 
 
v. 
 
TAMU N. TILLER, 
 
Respondent Below- 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 23, 2007  
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§ 
§  Court Below—Family Court 
§  of the State of Delaware, 
§  in and for New Castle County 
§  File No. CN99-07372 
§  Petition No. 06-38748 
§ 
 
 
 
 
 
Submitted: January 29, 2007 
 
 
 
 
  Decided: February 13, 2007 
 
Before STEELE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND, and RIDGELY, Justices. 
 
O R D E R 
 
 
This 13th day of February 2007, it appears to the Court that: 
(1) 
The appellant has filed a notice of appeal from a decision of a 
Family Court Commissioner dated December 29, 2006.  The Clerk of the 
Court issued a notice to the appellant to show cause why the appeal should 
not be dismissed for this Court’s lack of jurisdiction to consider a direct 
appeal from an order of a Commissioner of the Family Court.  The appellant 
filed a response to the notice to show cause on January 29, 2007, which does 
not address this Court’s jurisdictional limitations. 
 
2 
(2) 
A Commissioner’s order is not a final judgment for purposes of 
appeal to this Court.1  A party’s right of review from a Commissioner’s 
order shall be to a judge of the Family Court.2  Accordingly, this Court lacks 
jurisdiction to consider this appeal in the first instance. 
 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the appeal is hereby 
DISMISSED. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Myron T. Steele 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Chief Justice 
 
                                                 
1 See Redden v. McGill, 549 A.2d 695 (Del. 1988). 
2 DEL. CODE ANN. tit. 10, § 915(d) (1999).