                                       In The

                                Court of Appeals
                    Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
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                               NO. 09-13-00150-CV
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              IN RE LATITIA ADELLE JOHNSON BARNARD

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                                Original Proceeding
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                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

      In a petition for writ of habeas corpus, Latitia Adelle Johnson Barnard seeks

to compel Julius Marion Barnard III to return their three children to her. See

generally Tex. Fam. Code Ann. § 157.371 (West 2008).1 This Court lacks original

jurisdiction of a habeas proceeding for the return of a child. See id.; see also In re

McLane, No. 01-08-00763-CV, 2009 WL 4358857, at *2 (Tex. App.—Houston




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       The parties’ 2008 divorce decree gave relator the right to designate the
primary residence of the children, but in a pending suit seeking to modify and to
terminate the parent-child relationship, the trial court signed temporary orders
limiting relator’s access to the children to specific periods of visitation.
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[1st Dist.] Nov. 30, 2009, orig. proceeding) (mem. op.). We dismiss relator’s

petition for writ of habeas corpus.

      PETITION DISMISSED.

                                                   PER CURIAM


Submitted on April 10, 2013
Opinion Delivered April 25, 2013
Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Horton, JJ.




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