S. P. v. Texas Department of Family & Protective Services
Opinion
TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN
NO. 03-13-00504-CV
S. P., Appellant
v.
Texas Department of Family & Protective Services, Appellee
FROM THE 20TH DISTRICT COURT OF MILAM COUNTY, NO. CV35,444, THE HONORABLE JOHN YOUNGBLOOD, JUDGE PRESIDING
ORDER
Appellant S.P. filed her notice of appeal on July 19, 2013. The appellate record
was complete August 22, 2013, making appellant’s brief due September 11, 2013. To date,
appellant’s brief has not been filed.
Recent amendments to the rules of judicial administration accelerate the
final disposition of appeals from suits for termination of parental rights. See Tex. R. Jud.
Admin. 6.2(a), available at http://www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/MiscDocket/12/12903200.pdf
(providing 180 days for court’s final disposition). The accelerated schedule requires greater
compliance with briefing deadlines. Therefore we order counsel to file appellant’s brief no later
than October 2, 2013. If the brief is not filed by that date, counsel may be required to show
cause why he should not be held in contempt of court.
It is ordered on September 17, 2013.
Before Justices Puryear, Rose, and Goodwin
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