Bradley Bowen v. Virginia Graham

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: September 29, 2022
• Docket: 02-22-00333-CV
• Status: Published

Opinion

In the Court of Appeals Second Appellate District of Texas at Fort Worth ___________________________ No. 02-22-00333-CV ___________________________

BRADLEY BOWEN, Appellant

V.

VIRGINIA GRAHAM, Appellee

On Appeal from the 393rd District Court Denton County, Texas Trial Court No. 22-0356-393

Before Sudderth, C.J.; Kerr and Walker, JJ. Memorandum Opinion by Justice Walker MEMORANDUM OPINION

Appellant Bradley Bowen filed a “Notice of Appeal from Final Order in Suit

Affecting the Parent-Child-Relationship (Conservatorship, Possession and Access, Child

Support)” (Order). After receiving no copy of the Order, the clerk of this court

contacted the trial court clerk and was informed that the trial court had not yet

entered a final judgment or other appealable order in this case.1 For this reason, we

notified Bowen on August 26, 2022, that, unless he or any party desiring to continue

the appeal filed a response showing grounds for continuing the appeal, the appeal

would be dismissed for want of jurisdiction. We received no such response.

Appeals may be taken only from final judgments or as expressly allowed by

statute. Indus. Specialists, LLC v. Blanchard Ref. Co., No. 20-0174, 2022 WL 2082236, at

*2 (Tex. June 10, 2022); see Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. § 51.014. Having not

received an order from which an appeal may be taken in this case, we dismiss Bowen’s

appeal for want of jurisdiction. See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a), 43.2(f).

/s/ Brian Walker

Brian Walker Justice

Delivered: September 29, 2022

1 The Denton County District Clerk’s website notes that a jury trial is set in this matter for October 31, 2022.