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Date Created: 2023-01-17 14:09:19.781806+00
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Fourth Court of Appeals
                                     San Antonio, Texas
                                          January 10, 2023

                                        No. 04-22-00038-CV

                     IN THE ESTATE OF EMILY D. PRIETO, Deceased,

                    From the County Court At Law No 1, Webb County, Texas
                              Trial Court No. 2008-PB7-000086L1
                           Honorable Hugo Martinez, Judge Presiding

                                           ORDER
        Appellee’s brief is currently due on January 17, 2023. On January 3, 2023, appellee filed
a “Notice of Incomplete Clerk’s Record, Request to Clerk to Supplement Record, and
Unopposed Request for Small Extension of Time to File Responsive Brief,” maintaining the
clerk’s record is incomplete and requesting an extension of time to file his brief. Specifically,
appellee states the clerk’s record is missing complete copies of the following documents:

   1. Application for Probate of Will Produced in Court and For Issuance of Letters
      Testamentary, including the Will, Death Certificate, and Fiat, filed on September 16,
      2008, and
   2. Probate a Will, including Proof of Death and Other Facts and Order Probating Will, filed
      on September 29, 2008.

       Appellee further maintains the clerk’s record is missing the following documents:

   1. Complaint; Letter/Testamentary filed on September 21, 2008 and
   2. Inventory filed on May 21, 2009.

    Under Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 34.5(c), if a relevant item has been omitted from
the clerk’s record, the appellate court may direct the trial court clerk to prepare, certify, and file a
supplemental record containing the omitted items. See TEX. R. APP. P. 34.5(c). Accordingly, we
order the trial court clerk to file complete copies of the above-listed documents by January 25,
2023. We further grant appellee’s request for an extension of time and order appellee to file her
brief by February 9, 2023.

                                                       _________________________________
                                                       Luz Elena D. Chapa, Justice
       IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said
court on this 10th day of January, 2023.

                                              ___________________________________
                                              MICHAEL A. CRUZ, Clerk of Court