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                                Court of Appeals
                    Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
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                               NO. 09-17-00376-CV
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                   IN THE INTEREST OF L.K.E. AND L.E.

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                    On Appeal from the 258th District Court
                         San Jacinto County, Texas
                          Trial Cause No. DV13,808
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                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Darrell Edmond and Celeste Edmond filed a notice of appeal for an

interlocutory appeal. We notified the parties that information from the District Clerk

indicated that no appealable order or judgment had been signed and that our

jurisdiction was not apparent from the notice of appeal. In response, Appellants

informed the Court that they are appealing the trial court’s order of August 25, 2017,

vacating a temporary protective order entered on August 17, 2017.

      “A protective order rendered against a party in a suit affecting the parent-child

relationship may not be appealed until the time an order providing for support of the

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child or possession of or access to the child becomes a final, appealable order.” Tex.

Fam. Code Ann. § 81.009(c) (West 2014). Appellants do not contend that a final

order has been signed. Furthermore, a notice of appeal filed on October 6, 2017,

would have been filed too late to perfect an accelerated appeal of an order signed on

August 25, 2017. See Tex. R. App. P. 26.1(b). Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal

for lack of jurisdiction.

      APPEAL DISMISSED.


                                              ________________________________
                                                      CHARLES KREGER
                                                            Justice


Submitted on November 21, 2017
Opinion Delivered November 22, 2017

Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Johnson, JJ.




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