Document Info

DocketNumber: 04-18-00520-CV

Filed Date: 11/27/2018

Status: Precedential

Modified Date: 11/29/2018

  •                             Fourth Court of Appeals
    San Antonio, Texas
    November 27, 2018
    No. 04-18-00520-CV
    IN THE INTEREST OF N.R.T, C.C.T., A.T., CHILDREN,
    From the 229th Judicial District Court, Duval County, Texas
    Trial Court No. DC-16-59
    The Honorable Selina Nava Mireles, Judge Presiding
    ORDER
    This is an accelerated appeal involving the termination of parental rights. Appellee’s
    brief was originally due in this court on November 19, 2018. On that day, appellee filed a
    motion requesting an extension of time to file its brief. Counsel is reminded that, by statute, this
    appeal is to take precedence over other matters, and under the Texas Rules of Appellate
    Procedure, an appellee must file its brief within twenty days as opposed to thirty days after the
    appellant’s brief is filed. TEX. FAM. CODE ANN. §§ 109.002(a), 263.405(a); TEX. R. APP.
    38.6(b). Moreover, this court is mandated to dispose of appeals involving the termination of
    parental rights within 180 days from the date the notice of appeal is filed in the trial court. TEX.
    R. JUD. ADMIN. 6.2. Accordingly, any delay in the filing of the brief encroaches upon our time
    for disposition.
    After consideration, we GRANT IN PART AND DENY IN PART appellee’s motion for
    extension of time to file its brief and ORDER appellee to file its brief on or before December
    10, 2018.
    _________________________________
    Marialyn Barnard, Justice
    IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said
    court on this 27th day of November, 2018.
    ___________________________________
    KEITH E. HOTTLE,
    Clerk of Court