Court Opinion

ID: 5135800
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-12-17 08:15:33.039946+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:23:51.417014
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In The

                                 Court of Appeals

                     Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

                                __________________

                                NO. 09-21-00360-CV
                                __________________

                           IN THE INTEREST OF K.Y.

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                On Appeal from the 317th District Court
                       Jefferson County, Texas
                      Trial Cause No. F-238,197
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                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      In October 2021, the trial court signed a judgment in a case filed by the Texas

Department of Family and Protective Services, in which the court granted the

Department’s request to terminate the parent-child relationship between two

children and their parents. While the trial court still had plenary power over the final

judgment, G.L.S. Jr. appeared and moved for new trial, claiming he was never

properly notified or served with the Department’s suit.

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      In response to G.L.S. Jr.’s motion, the Department filed a motion for new trial.

In its motion, G.L.S. Jr. asked the trial court to grant his motion as to the extent the

judgment applied to him. G.L.S. Jr. also filed a timely notice of appeal.

      While the trial court had plenary power over its final judgment, the court

granted G.L.S. Jr.’s motion for new trial.1 See Tex. R. Civ. P. 329b(c), (e). Less than

a week later, we notified the parties the Court intended to dismiss the appeal unless

one of the parties to the appeal filed a valid objection to doing so since the appeal

appeared to the Court to be moot. The parties did not object to the Court’s suggestion

after the Court sent the parties notice that the Court intended to dismiss the appeal

as moot.

      For the reasons explained above, the appeal is dismissed. See Tex. R. App. P.

43.2(f).

      APPEAL DISMISSED.

                                                            PER CURIAM

Submitted on December 15, 2021
Opinion Delivered December 16, 2021

Before Kreger, Horton and Johnson, JJ.

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       The trial court did not vacate the final judgment, which also terminated the
parent-child relationships between Mother and the two children named in the suit.
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