                                  NO. 07-08-0522-CV

                             IN THE COURT OF APPEALS

                      FOR THE SEVENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                                     AT AMARILLO

                                        PANEL A

                                  JANUARY 29, 2009

                         ______________________________


                        IN THE INTEREST OF M.T.C., A CHILD

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            FROM THE 99TH DISTRICT COURT OF LUBBOCK COUNTY;

          NO. 2006-536,340; HONORABLE WILLIAM C. SOWDER, JUDGE

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Before CAMPBELL and HANCOCK and PIRTLE, JJ.


                               MEMORANDUM OPINION


      Pending before this Court is M.C.’s Motion to Withdraw Appeal in which he

represents that he no longer wishes to pursue an appeal from the trial court’s order

terminating his parental rights to his child, M.T.C. Without passing on the merits of the

case, the motion is granted and the appeal is hereby dismissed. See Tex. R. App. P.

42.1(a)(1). Having dismissed the appeal at M.C.’s request, no motion for rehearing will be

entertained and our mandate will issue forthwith.


                                                Patrick A. Pirtle
                                                    Justice
