Court Opinion

ID: 9959993
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Date Created: 2024-04-13 16:12:20.997455+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:19:03.234678
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NUMBER 13-24-00050-CV

                                  COURT OF APPEALS

                       THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                          CORPUS CHRISTI – EDINBURG

                       IN THE INTEREST OF D.P.M.A., A CHILD

                ON APPEAL FROM THE 138TH DISTRICT COURT
                      OF CAMERON COUNTY, TEXAS

                              MEMORANDUM OPINION
                  Before Justices Benavides, Tijerina, and Silva
                   Memorandum Opinion by Justice Benavides

        Appellant I.S.N.1 filed a pro se notice of appeal from an order denying her motion

for a new trial. On January 30, 2024, the Clerk of this Court advised appellant that it

appeared that there was not a final, appealable order. See TEX. R. APP. P. 37.1, 42.3(a).

The Clerk informed appellant that the appeal would be dismissed if this defect was not

cured within ten days. See id. R. 37.1, 42.3(a). To date, appellant has not responded to

the Clerk’s notice or corrected the defect in the appeal.

        1 To protect the privacy of the parties involved, we refer to them by initials. See TEX. FAM. CODE

ANN. § 109.002(d); TEX. R. APP. P. 9.8(b)(2).
        The Court, having examined and fully considered the documents on file, is of the

opinion that the appeal should be dismissed. Appellant’s notice of appeal assails a

December 20, 2022 order2 rendered against her which denies her motion for new trial

“on denial of appeal from CPS Court.” However, an order denying a motion for new trial

is not independently appealable. In re B.L.R., 592 S.W.3d 453, 462 (Tex. App.—Houston

[1st Dist.] 2018, no pet.); In re Adams, 416 S.W.3d 556, 560 (Tex. App.—Tyler 2013, orig.

proceeding); State Office of Risk Mgmt. v. Berdan, 335 S.W.3d 421, 428 (Tex. App.—

Corpus Christi–Edinburg 2011, pet. denied). Accordingly, we dismiss this appeal. See id.

R. 42.3(a).

                                                                            GINA M. BENAVIDES
                                                                            Justice

Delivered and filed on the
11th day of April, 2024.

        2 We note that appellant’s notice of appeal was filed on January 12, 2023 in district court but was

not filed with our Court until January 24, 2024. Given our disposition of this appeal, we need not further
examine this anomaly. We further note that the district clerk’s office has furnished this Court with a copy of
the final judgment in this case, the “Order of Termination,” signed by the associate judge on March 24,
2022, and adopted by the judge of the trial court on April 3, 2022. The final judgment terminates I.S.N.’s
parental rights to D.P.M.A., and reflects that appellant was represented by counsel in that proceeding. Our
records do not reflect that appellant filed a notice of appeal from that final judgment.

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