Court Opinion

ID: 4437871
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Date Created: 2019-09-12 22:15:04.752056+00
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Order filed September 11, 2019

                                       In The

                     Fourteenth Court of Appeals
                                    ____________

                               NO. 14-19-00560-CV
                                    ____________

 IN THE INTEREST OF A.A.C., A.E.C, E.S.C. AKA E.C., JR., CHILDREN,

                    On Appeal from the 312th District Court
                            Harris County, Texas
                      Trial Court Cause No. 2017-25634

                                      ORDER

      This is an accelerated appeal from a judgment in a suit in which the
termination of the parent-child relationship is at issue. Appellant’s brief was due
September 10, 2019 but it has not been filed.

      Appeals in parental termination cases and child protection cases are to be
brought to final disposition within 180 days of the date the notice of appeal is filed.
See Tex. R. Jud. Admin. 6.2(a) (effective May 1, 2012). This accelerated schedule
requires greater compliance with briefing deadlines.

      Therefore we order appellant’s appointed counsel, Jeffrey Glen Heintschel, to
file appellant’s brief no later than September 23, 2019. If the brief is not filed by
that date, counsel may be required to show cause why he should not be held in
contempt of court. In addition, the court may require appointment of new counsel
due to the failure to timely file appellant’s brief.

                                        PER CURIAM

Panel Consists of Justices Jewell, Bourliot, and Zimmerer.