Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-01-09 07:06:54.542607+00
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COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE
                           FIRST DISTRICT OF TEXAS AT HOUSTON

                            ORDER REGARDING BANKRUPTY STAY

Appellate case name:        Guadalupe Zermeno and Ildefonso Zermeno v. Carolyn Stone
Appellate case number:      01-22-00723-CV
Trial court case number:    2022-33380-7
Trial court:                234th District Court of Harris County

       Appellants, Guadalupe Zermeno and Ildefonso Zermeno, filed a notice of appeal
from the trial court’s October 3, 2022 “Order Granting [Appellee Carolyn] Stone’s Motion
to Dismiss [Appellants’] Original Petition for Bill of Review.” On December 19, 2022,
appellant, Ildefonso Zermeno, filed a “Notice of Suggestion of Bankruptcy,” notifying the
Court that on September 5, 2022, a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Petition had been filed on his
behalf in the United State Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston
Division. Appellant’s suggestion of bankruptcy states that the bankruptcy bears the case
number 2209-32621.
        Pursuant to appellant’s Notice of Suggestion of Bankruptcy, this appeal is stayed.
See 11 U.S.C. § 362(a) (automatic stay in bankruptcy). Until the parties notify the Court
that the bankruptcy proceedings have concluded and move to reinstate the appeal, the Court
will take no further action other than to receive and hold any documents submitted to the
Clerk of this Court. See TEX. R. APP. P. 8.2 (providing bankruptcy “suspends the appeal
and all periods in these rules from the date when the bankruptcy petition is filed until the
appellate court reinstates or severs the appeal in accordance with federal law”); see also
Budzyn v. Citibank (S.D.), N.A., No. 01-08-00211-CV, 2010 WL 2044628, at *1 (Tex.
App.—Houston [1st Dist.] May 19, 2010, no pet.) (mem. op.) (staying “entire appeal”
pending bankruptcy proceedings).
       Accordingly, this appeal is stayed and will be removed from the Court’s active
docket until a party successfully moves to reinstate the appeal or sever the appeal with
respect to the bankrupt party. See TEX. R. APP. P. 8.3.
      It is so ORDERED.

Judge’s signature: __/s/ April Farris_________
                    Acting individually       Acting for the Court

Date: ___January 5, 2023_____