Court Opinion

ID: 2813978
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2015-07-02 07:15:13.990892+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:24:19.692666
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In The

                                Court of Appeals
                    Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
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                               NO. 09-15-00182-CV
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                    IN THE INTEREST OF T.C. AND C.C.

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                On Appeal from the 317th District Court
                       Jefferson County, Texas
                      Trial Cause No. F-219,032
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                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

      The trial court signed a judgment terminating L.F.’s parental rights on

February 20, 2015. Notice of appeal was due to be filed on March 12, 2015. See

Tex. R. App. P. 26.1(b). L.F. filed notice of appeal with the trial court on May 12,

2015. On May 18, 2015, we notified the parties that the notice of appeal did not

appear to have been timely filed.

      On June 5, 2015, L.F. filed a response with this Court requesting an

extension of time, but failed to establish that the notice of appeal was timely filed.

L.F. filed notice of appeal more than twenty days from the date of the judgment

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and outside the time during which we may grant an extension of time to perfect

appeal. See Tex. R. App. P. 26.3. This Court lacks jurisdiction over L.F.’s appeal.

Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction.

      APPEAL DISMISSED.

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                                                    STEVE McKEITHEN
                                                       Chief Justice

Submitted on July 1, 2015
Opinion Delivered July 2, 2015

Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Johnson, JJ.

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