Court Opinion

ID: 6500199
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-15 07:10:59.847969+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:54:33.514046
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In The

                                Court of Appeals

                    Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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                               NO. 09-22-00164-CV
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                         IN THE INTEREST OF B.B.C.

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                On Appeal from the 317th District Court
                       Jefferson County, Texas
                      Trial Cause No. F-239,508
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                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

      On March 21, 2022, the trial court signed a judgment terminating the parental

rights of G.V. to his child, B.B.C. On May 23, 2022, G.V. filed a notice of appeal.

We questioned our jurisdiction but G.V. did not file a response.

      An appeal is accelerated in a case where the trial court ordered termination of

parental rights. See Tex. Fam. Code Ann. §§ 109.002, 263.405(a); see also Tex. R.

App. P. 28.4. Accordingly, a notice of appeal is due twenty days after the trial court

signs the final judgment. See Tex. R. App. P. 26.1(b), 28.1(b). The appellant has not

shown that he filed a notice of appeal within the time authorized for perfecting an

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accelerated appeal or for requesting an extension of time to file a notice of appeal.

See Tex. R. App. P. 26.1(b), 26.3. Therefore, we dismiss the appeal for lack of

jurisdiction. See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a), 43.2(f).

      APPEAL DISMISSED.

                                                          PER CURIAM

Submitted on July 13, 2022
Opinion Delivered July 14, 2022

Before Golemon, C.J., Horton and Johnson, JJ.

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