Court Opinion

ID: 3071902
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2015-10-16 00:41:25.096762+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:12:48.870458
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NUMBER 13-15-00113-CV

                           COURT OF APPEALS

                 THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                    CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
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           IN THE INTEREST OF L.J.C.S., MINOR CHILD
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          On appeal from the County Court at Law No. 5
                   of Nueces County, Texas.
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                        MEMORANDUM OPINION
  Before Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Rodriguez and Longoria
                 Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam

      Appellant, April Cantu, attempted to perfect an appeal from a final order signed by

the County Court at Law No. 5, Nueces County, Texas, in cause no. 2014-FAM-60639-

5. Upon review of the documents before the Court, it appeared that there was no final,

appealable judgment. On March 11, 2015, the Clerk of this Court notified appellant of

this defect so that steps could be taken to correct the defect, if it could be done. See

TEX. R. APP. P. 37.1, 42.3. Appellant was advised that, if the defect was not corrected
within ten days from the date of receipt of the notice, the appeal would be dismissed for

want of jurisdiction. Appellant failed to respond to the Court’s notice.

       The Nueces County Clerk’s Office has informed this Court that no final judgment

has been entered in this case. In terms of appellate jurisdiction, appellate courts only

have jurisdiction to review final judgments and certain interlocutory orders identified by

statute. Lehmann v. Har-Con Corp., 39 S.W.3d 191, 195 (Tex. 2001).

       The Court, having considered the documents on file and appellant's failure to

correct the defect in this matter, is of the opinion that the appeal should be dismissed for

want of jurisdiction.      Accordingly, the appeal is DISMISSED FOR WANT OF

JURISDICTION. See TEX. R. APP. P. 42.3(a),(c).

                                                 PER CURIAM

Delivered and filed the
16th day of April, 2015.

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