In The
Court of Appeals
Seventh District of Texas at Amarillo
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No. 07-18-00080-CV
IN THE INTEREST OF T.C. AND J.C., CHILDREN
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No. 07-18-00081-CV
IN THE INTEREST OF T.C., A CHILD
On Appeal from the 108th District Court
Potter County, Texas
Trial Court Nos. 88,731-E & 89,364-E; Honorable Douglas Woodburn, Presiding
June 12, 2018
ORDER OF SEVERANCE
Before QUINN, C.J., and PIRTLE and PARKER, JJ.
Appellant mother, S.C., and Appellant father, T.C., both appealed from the trial
court’s orders terminating their parental rights to their children, T.C., J.C., and T.C.1 The
appellate record has been filed in each case and the father’s court-appointed counsel has
1 Appellant father and his two sons all have the same initials. To protect the privacy of the parents,
the children, and other parties, we refer to the children by their initials. See TEX. FAM. CODE ANN. §
109.002(d) (West Supp. 2017). See also TEX. R. APP. P. 9.8(b).
filed a brief in each cause of action, pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U. S. 738, 87
S. Ct. 1396, 18 L. Ed. 2d 493 (1967), in support of a motion to withdraw, by which she
represents there are no meritorious issues to present on appeal. S.C. has filed a
meritorious brief. Based on conflicting briefs having been filed by the parents, we hereby
sever T.C.’s appeals into new appellate cause numbers.
Given the time-sensitive nature of appeals from parental termination orders, we
assign new appellate cause numbers as follows: 07-18-00232-CV, styled In the Interest
of T.C. and J.C., Children and 07-18-00233-CV, styled In the Interest of T.C., a Child, to
those appeals.
The appeals involving S.C. will retain appellate cause numbers 07-18-00080-CV,
styled In the Interest of T.C. and J.C., Children and 07-18-00081-CV, styled In the Interest
of T.C., a Child.
It is so ordered.
Per Curiam
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in the Interest of T.C., a Child
Combined Opinion