Court Opinion

ID: 4025132
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-08-16 00:13:11.947432+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:51:48.888334
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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

                                     NO. 03-16-00453-CV

                                        M. P., Appellant

                                                v.

                Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Appellee

          FROM THE 22ND DISTRICT COURT OF CALDWELL COUNTY,
   NO. 14-FL-484, THE HONORABLE TODD A. BLOMERTH, JUDGE PRESIDING

                                           ORDER

PER CURIAM

               Appellant M. P. filed her notice of appeal on July 7, 2016.         The appellate

record was complete July 20, 2016, making appellant’s brief due August 10, 2016.              On

August 10, 2016, counsel for appellant filed a motion for extension of time to file

appellant’s brief.

               Amendments to the rules of judicial administration accelerate the final disposition

of appeals from suits for termination of parental rights.      See Tex. R. Jud. Admin. 6.2(a)

(providing 180 days for court’s final disposition). The accelerated schedule constrains this

Court’s leeway in granting extensions. In this instance, we will grant the motion and order

counsel to file appellant’s brief no later than August 17, 2016. 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 August 11, 2016.

Before Chief Justice Rose, Justices Goodwin and Bourland