Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-03-11 09:09:45.532537+00
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In the
        Court of Appeals
Second Appellate District of Texas
         at Fort Worth
     ___________________________
          No. 02-23-00464-CV
     ___________________________

        IN THE MATTER OF J.S.

  On Appeal from the 323rd District Court
          Tarrant County, Texas
      Trial Court No. 323-122045-23

    Before Kerr, Birdwell, and Bassel, JJ.
   Memorandum Opinion by Justice Kerr
                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      On December 6, 2023, we received Appellant J.S.’s notice of appeal “from the

trial court’s Judgment dated November 30, 2023.” See Tex. R. App. P. 25.1(e). On

December 8, 2023, we sent the parties a letter informing them that we had received a

copy of J.S.’s notice of appeal but that it appeared that the notice of appeal was

premature because the trial court judge had not signed an order in this case. See Tex.

R. App P. 26.1(a), 27.1(a). We allowed the parties a reasonable time to correct the

defect in the record, giving them until December 18, 2023, to furnish us with a signed

copy of the order that J.S. seeks to appeal. See Tex. R. App. P. 44.3, 44.4(a)(2). We

stated that if no order was signed and furnished to us by that date, then this appeal

would be dismissed for want of jurisdiction. See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a), 43.2(f).

      The deadline has passed, and we have not received a signed copy of a final

judgment or appealable order. We thus dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction. See

Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a), 43.2(f); see also Lehmann v. Har-Con Corp., 39 S.W.3d 191, 195,

200 (Tex. 2001) (holding that, generally, appeals may be taken only from final

judgments or interlocutory orders authorized by statute).

                                                      /s/ Elizabeth Kerr
                                                      Elizabeth Kerr
                                                      Justice

Delivered: March 7, 2024

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