Court Opinion

ID: 4433165
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Date Created: 2019-08-26 07:19:08.638458+00
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Order filed August 23, 2019

                                       In The

                     Fourteenth Court of Appeals
                                    ____________

                               NO. 14-19-00473-CV
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           IN THE INTEREST OF K.J.B., AND K.J.B., CHILDREN

                    On Appeal from the 314th District Court
                             Harris County, Texas
                      Trial Court Cause No. 2018-00508J

                                      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
August 21, 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, William B. Connolly, to
file appellant’s brief no later than September 3, 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 Chief Justice Frost and Justices Wise and Hassan.