Pace West v. Lenora West

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: December 14, 2006
• Docket: 02-06-00399-CV
• Status: Published

Opinion

                                      COURT OF APPEALS

                                       SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                                                   FORT WORTH

                                        NO.  2-06-399-CV

PACE WEST                                                                       APPELLANT

                                                   V.

LENORA WEST                                                                      APPELLEE

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           FROM THE 324TH DISTRICT COURT OF TARRANT COUNTY

                                MEMORANDUM OPINION^[1]

Appellant Pace West attempts to appeal from the trial court=s Agreed Protective Order in the underlying divorce case.  The parties= divorce proceeding remains pending and unresolved in the trial court.  Thus, the trial court=s protective order is not a final, appealable order.  See Kiefer v. Kiefer, 132 S.W.3d 601, 602 (Tex. App.CFort Worth 2004, no pet.) (holding that a protective order rendered during the pendency of a divorce is not a final judgment for purposes of appeal); see also Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. ' 51.014 (Vernon Supp. 2006) (conferring right to appeal from certain interlocutory orders).

On November 1, 2006, we notified the parties that this appeal would be dismissed for want of jurisdiction unless appellant or any party desiring to continue the appeal filed a response showing grounds for continuing the appeal on or before November 13, 2006.  See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a).  We have not received any response.

Because the trial court=s protective order is not an appealable interlocutory order, we dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.  See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a), 43.2(f).

PER CURIAM

PANEL D:   GARDNER, WALKER, and MCCOY, JJ.

DELIVERED:  December 14, 2006

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^[1]See Tex. R. App. P. 47.4.