                                      In The

                               Court of Appeals
                    Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
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                              NO. 09-13-00065-CV
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                    TRISHA WAKAT SHAFER, Appellant

                                        V.

                     JACK NEWTON SHAFER, Appellee
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                    On Appeal from the 418th District Court
                         Montgomery County, Texas
                       Trial Cause No. 10-06-06422 CV
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                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

      The trial court signed a final protective order on August 23, 2012. Appellant,

Trisha Wakat Shafer, filed a notice of appeal on February 8, 2013. We questioned

our jurisdiction, and the parties filed responses. Appellant contends she is seeking

to appeal the trial court’s denial of her post-judgment motions. For a regular

appeal, the timely filing of an appropriate post-judgment motion extends the time

for perfecting appeal from thirty days to ninety days after the date the judgment is

signed. See Tex. R. App. P. 26.1. The time to appeal runs from the date of the

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judgment, not the date the trial court rules on the post-judgment motions. Id.

Appellant failed to timely perfect her appeal. We dismiss the appeal for lack of

jurisdiction.

      APPEAL DISMISSED.


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                                                   STEVE McKEITHEN
                                                       Chief Justice


Opinion Delivered April 4, 2013
Before McKeithen, C.J., Gaultney and Kreger, JJ.




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