Court Opinion

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NUMBER 13-12-00238-CV

                             COURT OF APPEALS

                   THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                      CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
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 IN THE MATTER OF THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA DE JESUS GARCIA
AND WILFRIDO GARCIA AND IN THE INTEREST OF MINOR CHILDREN
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             On appeal from the 449th District Court
                   of Hidalgo County, Texas.
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                          MEMORANDUM OPINION
        Before Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Rodriguez and Garza
                      Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam

       Appellant, Doug Allison and Law Offices of Douglas A. Allison, attempted to

perfect an appeal from an order signed on October 9, 2009, in cause no. F-551-05-K.

Upon review of the documents before the Court, it appeared that the notice of appeal was

not timely perfected and that the order was not appealable. On April 17, 2012, the Clerk

of this Court notified appellant of these defects so that steps could be taken to correct the

defects, if it could be done. See TEX. R. APP. P. 37.1, 42.3. Appellant was advised that,

if the defect was not corrected within ten days from the date of receipt of the notice, the
appeal would be dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Appellant responded to the Court=s

notice and advised that the notice of appeal references an order signed on October 9,

2009, but the trial court judge never signed an order relating to the hearing that occurred

on October 9, 2009.

       In terms of appellate jurisdiction, appellate courts only have jurisdiction to review

final judgments and certain interlocutory orders identified by statute.        Lehmann v.

Har-Con Corp., 39 S.W.3d 191, 195 (Tex. 2001). Because there is no final judgment or

order subject to appeal, the notice of appeal is premature. See Tex. R. App. P. 26.1,

27.1(a)

       Appellant has not demonstrated that a written order has been signed.

Accordingly, the appeal is DISMISSED FOR WANT OF JURISDICTION. See TEX. R.

APP. P. 42.3(a).

                                                 PER CURIAM

Delivered and filed the
24th day of May, 2012.

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