Court Opinion

ID: 2955861
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Date Created: 2015-09-17 00:44:57.373862+00
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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

NO. 03-12-00159-CV

Karla Moten-Jenkins, Appellant

v.

Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Appellee

FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF BELL COUNTY, 146TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
NO. 246,338-B, HONORABLE RICK MORRIS, JUDGE PRESIDING

O R D E R

PER CURIAM

	Appellant Karla Moten-Jenkins filed her notice of appeal on March 15, 2012.  The
appellate record was complete on March 26, 2012, and the Court extended the time for filing
appellant's brief to April 18, 2012.  On March 27, 2012, appellant's counsel filed a motion seeking
an extension of time to file the brief until April 28, 2012.
	Recent amendments to the rules of judicial administration accelerate the final
disposition of appeals from suits for termination of the parent-child relationship.  See Tex. R. Jud.
Admin. 6.2(a), available at http://www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/MiscDocket/12/12903200.pdf
(providing 180 days for court's final disposition).  Accordingly, we grant the motion for extension
of time and order counsel to file appellant's brief no later than April 30, 2012.  If the brief is not filed
by that date, counsel may be required to show cause why he should not be held in contempt of court.

	It is ordered on April 5, 2012.

Before Chief Justice Jones, Justices Pemberton and Rose