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Date Created: 2023-01-16 00:11:04.518949+00
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Abatement Order filed January 12, 2023

                                      In The

                    Fourteenth Court of Appeals
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                              NO. 14-22-00897-CV
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              IN RE MARIA CRISTINA DONNELLY, Relator

                        ORIGINAL PROCEEDING
                          WRIT OF MANDAMUS
                   On Appeal from the Probate Court No. 2
                            Harris County, Texas
                     Trial Court Cause No. 477,195-401

                           ABATEMENT ORDER

      On December 5, 2022, relator Maria Cristina Donnelly filed a petition for writ
of mandamus in this court. See Tex. Gov’t Code Ann. § 22.221; see also Tex. R.
App. P. 52. Relator asks this court to order the Honorable Michael Newman to
vacate his November 29, 2022 docket control order.

      Because Judge Newman ceased to hold the office of Probate Court No. 2,
Harris County, Texas, we are required to abate this mandamus proceeding to permit
the respondent’s successor, the Honorable Pamela Medina, to consider the decision
regarding relator’s request for relief. See Tex. R. App. P. 7.2(b); see also In re
Baylor Med. Ctr. at Garland, 280 S.W.3d 227, 228 (Tex. 2008) (orig. proceeding)
(“Mandamus will not issue against a new judge for what a former one did.”).
      Therefore, we abate this proceeding, treat it as a closed case, and remove it
from the court’s active docket. This original proceeding is abated until February
13, 2023 to permit Judge Medina to consider the order underlying relator’s request
for relief. On or before that date, Judge Medina shall advise this court of the action
taken on relator’s request by filing a signed order reflecting her ruling concerning
relator’s request for relief with this court. The court will then consider a motion to
reinstate or dismiss the original proceeding, as appropriate.

                                   PER CURIAM

Panel consists of Justices Jewell, Bourliot, and Poissant.

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