In Re Augustine Nchekewube Okoli v. the State of Texas

Opinion

Opinion issued August 6, 2026

In The

Court of Appeals

For The

First District of Texas

petition, Relator filed an “Emergency Motion for Temporary Relief to Stay

Enforcement of the Clarifying Order Pending Appeal” requesting that our Court (1)

stay enforcement of the challenged order “pending final disposition of the appeal

and any related original proceeding” and (2) order that the child at issue in the

underlying case remain “in Nigeria with her paternal grandmother and father

pending final resolution of the appeal.”

We deny the mandamus petition. All pending motions, including Relator’s

emergency motion for temporary relief, are dismissed as moot.

PER CURIAM

Panel consists of Chief Justice Adams and Justices Rivas-Molloy and Guiney.

Footnotes

1. NO. 01-26-00759-CV ——————————— IN RE AUGUSTINE NCHEKWUBE OKOLI, Relator Original Proceeding on Petition for Writ of Mandamus MEMORANDUM OPINION Relator Augustine Nchekwube Okoli filed a petition for writ of mandamus challenging the trial court’s July 9, 2026 “Clarifying Order to Final Decree of Divorce.”1 Relator’s related appeal of the Final Decree of Divorce is pending in our Court under Cause No. 01-26-00134-CV. In conjunction with his mandamus 1 The underlying case is In the Matter of the Marriage of Chidinma August Okoli and Augustine Nchekwube Okoli, cause number 2020-24448, pending in the 257th District Court of Harris County, Texas, the Honorable Lilian Alexander presiding.