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Date Created: 2023-01-24 11:09:57.008499+00
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Fourth Court of Appeals
                                        San Antonio, Texas
                                              January 18, 2023

                                            No. 04-22-00647-CV

                                      IN RE Denise Marie RAMOS

                                     Original Mandamus Proceeding 1

                                             ORDER
       On September 30, 2022, relator filed a petition for writ of mandamus. On October 18, 2022,
we requested responses from the trial court and real party in interest. No responses were filed.

        We CONDITIONALLY GRANT IN PART AND DENY IN PART the petition for writ
of mandamus. We order the Honorable Laura Salinas to, within fifteen days of this order, vacate
the following terms in the August 30, 2022 “Order on Motion for Severance and Removal of Les
Pendis [sic]”:

             •   “IT IS ORDERED that the Jury Trial set for August 1, 2022, on the common law
                 fraud claim of the Plaintiff and the claim of the Defendant are abated and postponed
                 until the Appellate Court has ruled on the severed causes of action asserted by
                 DENISE MARIE RAMOS, Petitioner, relating to common law marriage, breach of
                 contract, real estate fraud and quantum meruit pet sitting [sic].
             •   IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the remaining claim for common law fraud by
                 Plaintiff and the claim of the Defendant are abated util [sic] after the conclusion of
                 the appeal of the severed claims.”
        See TEX. R. APP. P. 52.8(c).

        All additional relief requested by relator is DENIED.
        The writ will issue only if we are informed that the trial court has failed to comply with
this order.

1
 This proceeding arises out of Cause No. 2018-CI-21009, styled In the Matter of the Marriage of Denise Marie Ramos
and Reynaldo Esparza Jr, pending in the 407th Judicial District Court, Bexar County, Texas. The Honorable Laura
Salinas signed the order at issue.
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      It is so ORDERED on January 18, 2023.

                                                     _____________________________
                                                     Lori I. Valenzuela, Justice

       IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said
court on this 18th day of January, 2023.

                                                     _____________________________
                                                     Michael A. Cruz, Clerk of Court

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