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Date Created: 2023-03-21 14:07:31.194468+00
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Fourth Court of Appeals
                                      San Antonio, Texas
                                 MEMORANDUM OPINION
                                         No. 04-22-00823-CV

                                    Eduardo Martinez ARIZALA,
                                             Appellant

                                                   v.

                                 Lourdes Lizeth Martinez ARIZALA,
                                              Appellee

                      From the 73rd Judicial District Court, Bexar County, Texas
                                    Trial Court No. 2022CI14443
                           Honorable Mary Lou Alvarez, Judge Presiding

PER CURIAM

Sitting:          Rebeca C. Martinez, Chief Justice
                  Patricia O. Alvarez, Justice
                  Luz Elena D. Chapa, Justice

Delivered and Filed: March 15, 2023

DISMISSED FOR LACK OF JURISDICTION

           On December 8, 2022, Eduardo Martinez Arizala, appellant, filed a notice of appeal stating

his intent to appeal a divorce decree. The clerk’s record was filed on January 12, 2023. Although

the clerk’s record contains the judge’s notes, the clerk’s record contains neither a final judgment

nor an interlocutory order that may afford an authorized interlocutory appeal.            See Indus.

Specialists, LLC v. Blanchard Ref. Co., 652 S.W.3d 11, 14 (Tex. 2022) (plurality op.) (explaining,

absent an exception, an appeal may be taken only from a final judgment); Alexander Dubose

Jefferson & Townsend LLP v. Chevron Phillips Chem. Co., L.P., 540 S.W.3d 577, 581 (Tex. 2018)
                                                                                      04-22-00823-CV

(“Usually, only final judgments are subject to appeal.”); In re A.W., 384 S.W.3d 872, 873 (Tex.

App.—San Antonio 2012, no pet.) (noting “judge’s notes contained in the clerk’s record do not

constitute a final order.”) In response to this court’s inquiry, the trial court clerk confirmed that

the clerk’s record does not contain a final order. This court ordered appellant to show cause in

writing by February 6, 2023, why this appeal should not be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.

Appellant has filed no response. Because neither a final judgment nor an interlocutory order that

may afford an authorized interlocutory appeal has been signed in the underlying cause, this appeal

is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. See TEX. R. APP. P. 42.3(a).

                                                  PER CURIAM

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