Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2015-10-16 01:23:09.491446+00
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In The

                                  Court of Appeals
                       Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
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                                NO. 09-13-00157-CV
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                           IN THE INTEREST OF R.T.W.

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                       On Appeal from the 317th District Court
                             Jefferson County, Texas
                           Trial Cause No. C-186,023-A
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                            MEMORANDUM OPINION

       The appellant filed a notice of appeal from temporary orders in a suit affecting the

parent-child relationship. We questioned our jurisdiction and invited the parties to file

responses. No response has been filed. We also warned the appellant that the filing fee

must be paid unless she established indigence. The appellant neither asserted indigence

nor paid the filing fee.

       Generally, an appeal may be taken only from a final judgment. Lehmann v.

Har–Con Corp., 39 S.W.3d 191, 195 (Tex. 2001). Generally, temporary orders in

suits affecting the parent-child relationship “are not subject to interlocutory

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appeal.” Tex. Fam. Code Ann. § 105.001 (West 2008). The appellant has not

shown that a statute authorizes an appeal at this time. Furthermore, the appellant

did not file a response within the schedule set by the Court. See Tex. R. App. P.

42.3. We dismiss the appeal. Id.

      APPEAL DISMISSED.

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                                                      HOLLIS HORTON
                                                          Justice

Opinion Delivered May 16, 2013
Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Horton, JJ.

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