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Date Created: 2019-04-29 08:42:50.449546+00
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Fourth Court of Appeals
                                   San Antonio, Texas
                                          April 25, 2019

                                       No. 04-19-00196-CV

                    IN THE GUARDIANSHIP OF JAMES E. FAIRLEY,

                       From the Probate Court No 2, Bexar County, Texas
                                 Trial Court No. 2011-PC-1068
                       Honorable Polly Jackson Spencer, Judge Presiding

                                          ORDER
       The trial court clerk has filed a clerk’s record. However, the clerk’s record does not
comply with Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 34.5(a), which lists the documents that must be
included in the clerk’s record “[u]nless the parties designate the filings in the appellate record by
agreement under Rule 34.2.” TEX. R. APP. P. 34.5. Rule 34.5(a) provides that in civil cases, the
documents to be included in the clerk’s record are the following:

       (1)     all pleadings on which the trial was held;
       (2)     the court’s docket sheet,
       (3)     the court’s charge and the jury’s verdict, or the court’s findings of
               fact and conclusions of law;
       (4)     the court’s judgment or other order that is being appealed;
       (5)     any request for findings of fact and conclusions of law, any post-
               judgment motion, and the court’s order on the motion;
       (6)     the notice of appeal;
       (7)     any formal bill of exception;
       (8)     any request for a reporter’s record, including any statement of
               points or issues under Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 34.6(c);
       (9)     any request for preparation of the clerk’s record;
       (10)    a certified bill of costs including the cost of preparing the clerk’s
               record, showing credits for payments made; and
       (11)    any filing that a party designates to have included in the record.

       In this appeal, appellant appeals from the trial court’s order denying appellant’s motion to
dismiss pursuant to the Texas Citizens Participation Act. See TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE
ANN. § 27.001-27.011. The clerk’s record does not contain all pleadings and orders relating to
the denial of this motion. We ORDER the trial court clerk to file a supplemental clerk’s record
on or before May 6, 2019 containing the following documents:
        1. Order Dismissing Application for Appointment of Permanent Guardian of the Person
           signed on September 19, 2014;
        2. Motion to Transfer Matter Related to Guardianship filed on January 7, 2019;
        3. Objection to the Court Transferring District Court Case Into Terminated
           Guardianship filed on January 14, 2019;
        4. Order Transferring Cause signed on February 28, 2019;
        5. Answer/Response filed on March 14, 2019;
        6. Plaintiff’s First Amended Petition filed on March 14, 2019; and
        7. Response to Rule 91a Motion filed on March 21, 2019.1

                                                              _________________________________
                                                              Liza A. Rodriguez, Justice

       IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said
court on this 25th day of April, 2019.

                                                              ___________________________________
                                                              KEITH E. HOTTLE,
                                                              Clerk of Court

1
   We recognize that appellant attached some of these pleadings to her motion to dismiss filed on March 6, 2019.
However, a clerk’s record must include the actual pleadings filed; the attachment of the pleadings to another motion
is not sufficient.