TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN
NO. 03-13-00766-CV
F. S. H., Appellant
v.
Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Appellee
FROM THE 201ST DISTRICT COURT OF TRAVIS COUNTY
NO. D-1-FM-12-001659, HONORABLE STEPHEN YELENOSKY, JUDGE PRESIDING
ORDER
PER CURIAM
Appellant F.S.H. filed his notice of appeal on November 15, 2013. The appellate
record was complete December 2, 2013, making appellant’s brief due December 23, 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 January 17, 2014. 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 January 3, 2014.
Before Chief Justice Jones, Justices Pemberton and Rose