Court Opinion

ID: 4531952
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2020-05-06 08:14:44.471632+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:30:35.235574
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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

                                      NO. 03-20-00219-CV

                                         N. M., Appellant

                                                 v.

                Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Appellee

                 FROM THE 22ND DISTRICT COURT OF HAYS COUNTY
      NO. 18-1038, THE HONORABLE MELISSA MCCLENAHAN, JUDGE PRESIDING

                                            ORDER

PER CURIAM

               Appellant N.M. filed her notice of appeal on March 28, 2020. The appellate

record was complete April 14, 2020, making appellant’s brief due May 4, 2020. On May 4,

2020, counsel for appellant filed a motion for extension of time to file appellant’s brief.

               The rules of judicial administration accelerate the final disposition of appeals

from suits for termination of parental rights. See Tex. R. Jud. Admin. 6.2(a) (providing 180 days

for court’s final disposition). The accelerated schedule constrains this Court’s leeway in granting

extensions. In this instance, we will grant the motion and order James B. Peplinski to file

appellant’s brief no later than May 26, 2020. 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.

               It is ordered on May 5, 2020.

Before Chief Justice Rose, Justices Baker and Triana