TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN
NO. 03-13-00151-CV
S. H., Appellant
v.
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Appellee
FROM THE 345TH DISTRICT COURT OF TRAVIS COUNTY,
NO. D-1-FM-11-004887, THE HONORABLE DARLENE BYRNE, JUDGE PRESIDING
ORDER
PER CURIAM
Appellant S.H. filed her notice of appeal on March 4, 2013. The appellate record
was filed on March 14, 2013, making appellant=s brief due April 3, 2013. The clerk’s record filed
on March 14, 2013, did not, however, include the trial court’s findings of fact and conclusions of
law and, for that reason, on April 3, 2013, appellant requested a fifteen-day extension of time to
file a brief. A supplemental clerk’s record including the findings of fact and conclusion of law
was filed with this Court on April 5, 2013.
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 constrains this
Court’s leeway in granting extensions. In this instance, we will grant the motion in part and
order counsel to file appellant=s brief no later than April 18, 2013. If the brief is not filed by that
date, counsel may be required to show cause why she should not be held in contempt of court.
It is ordered on April 8, 2013.
Before Chief Justice Jones, Justices Goodwin and Field