TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN
NO. 03-13-00722-CV
U. S., Appellant
v.
Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Appellee
FROM THE 126TH DISTRICT COURT OF TRAVIS COUNTY,
NO. D-1-FM-12-005824, THE HONORABLE SCOTT H. JENKINS, JUDGE PRESIDING
ORDER
PER CURIAM
Appellant U. S. filed his notice of appeal on October 21, 2013. The appellate
record was complete November 13, 2013, making appellant=s brief due December 3, 2013. To
date, appellant=s brief has not been filed.
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 December 30, 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.1
1
Counsel should disregard our late-brief letter sent in error on December 11, 2013.
It is ordered on December 13, 2013.
Before Justices Puryear, Rose and Goodwin