Court Opinion

ID: 9906507
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Date Created: 2023-12-04 11:23:39.519346+00
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In the
          Court of Appeals
  Second Appellate District of Texas
           at Fort Worth
        ___________________________
             No. 02-23-00350-CV
        ___________________________

IN THE INTEREST OF D.B. AND G.B., CHILDREN

     On Appeal from the 467th District Court
            Denton County, Texas
         Trial Court No. 18-10967-16

    Before Womack, Wallach, and Walker, JJ.
    Memorandum Opinion by Justice Womack
                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

       On September 25, 2023, we received a document from Appellant T.B.

(Mother) entitled “Notice of Appeal Pursuant to Provisions of §[ ]201.015, Texas

Family Code.” See Tex. Fam. Code Ann. § 201.015 (authorizing de novo hearing

before the referring court of certain rulings made by an associate judge).         On

September 27, 2023, we sent the parties a letter informing them that we had received a

copy of Mother’s notice of appeal in this case but that it appeared that the notice of

appeal was premature because the trial court judge had not signed an order. See Tex.

R. App. P. 26.1(a), 27.1(a). We allowed the parties a reasonable time to correct the

defect in the record, giving them until October 17, 2023, to furnish us with a signed

copy of the order that Mother seeks to appeal. See Tex. R. App. P. 44.3, 44.4(a)(2).

We stated that if no order was signed and furnished to us by that date, then this

appeal would be dismissed for want of jurisdiction. See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a),

43.2(f).

       The deadline has passed, and we have not received a signed copy of a final

judgment or appealable order. We thus dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.

See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a), 43.2(f); see also Lehmann v. Har-Con Corp., 39 S.W.3d 191,

195, 200 (Tex. 2001) (holding that, generally, appeals may be taken only from final

judgments or interlocutory orders authorized by statute).

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                                   /s/ Dana Womack

                                   Dana Womack
                                   Justice

Delivered: November 30, 2023

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