IN THE
TENTH COURT OF APPEALS
No. 10-16-00281-CV
IN THE INTEREST OF A.S., J.S., A.S., AND D.S., CHILDREN
From the County Court at Law
Bosque County, Texas
Trial Court No. CV15247
ORDER
The Department’s brief was filed on March 1, 2017, along with a motion to exceed
the word limit on the Department’s brief by 4,104 words. The Department’s motion is
denied.
However, the brief has already been filed and due to the timetable in which we
are to decide cases involving the termination of parental rights, we will not strike the
Department’s brief. We have far more complex appeals involving much larger records
that are briefed within the word limits. We admonish the Department to strive harder to
limit its briefs to the number of words permitted by the Texas Rules of Appellate
Procedure.1 Future briefs by the Department in excess of the word limit may be stricken.
PER CURIAM
Before Chief Justice Gray,
Justice Davis, and
Justice Scoggins
Motion denied
Order issued and filed March 22, 2017
1
As an example of what can be done, the Court was able to reduce the motion by 92 words primarily by
eliminating paragraphs 4 and 5 of the motion which are repeated in the certificate of conference.
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