Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2017-07-31 07:12:05.272705+00
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COURT OF APPEALS
                        SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS
                             FORT WORTH

                             NO. 02-17-00219-CV

IN THE INTEREST OF K.L., J.L.,
AND K.L., CHILDREN

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          FROM THE 360TH DISTRICT COURT OF TARRANT COUNTY
                    TRIAL COURT NO. 360-571807-15

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                       MEMORANDUM OPINION1

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      Appellant P.L. (Father) attempts to appeal from an “Order on Motion for

Withdrawal of Counsel” signed on May 18, 2017. On June 28, 2017, we sent a

letter to Father expressing our concern that we may not have jurisdiction over

this appeal because the order does not appear to be a final judgment or

appealable interlocutory order. See Lehmann v. Har-Con Corp., 39 S.W.3d 191,

195 (Tex. 2001) (explaining that “the general rule, with a few mostly statutory

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      See Tex. R. App. P. 47.4.
exceptions, is that an appeal may be taken only from a final judgment”); Davis v.

Tex. Dep’t of Family & Protective Servs., No. 03-10-00624-CV, 2010 WL

4367076, at *1 (Tex. App.—Austin Nov. 5, 2010, no pet.) (mem. op.) (“A trial

court’s order granting a motion to withdraw is not an appealable interlocutory

order.”).   We stated that unless Father or any party desiring to continue the

appeal filed a response showing grounds for continuing the appeal by July 10,

2017, the appeal could be dismissed for want of jurisdiction. See Tex. R. App. P.

42.3(a), 44.3.    Father filed a response, but it does not show grounds for

continuing the appeal. Therefore, we dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.

See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a), 43.2(f).

                                                 PER CURIAM

PANEL: WALKER, MEIER, and GABRIEL, JJ.

DELIVERED: July 27, 2017

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