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In Interest of E.H.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Second District, Fort Worth
Jun 12, 2008
No. 02-07-343-CV (Tex. App. Jun. 12, 2008)

Opinion

No. 02-07-343-CV

Delivered: June 12, 2008.

Appealed from the 323rd District Court of Tarrant County.

PANEL F: DAUPHINOT, LIVINGSTON, and HOLMAN, JJ.


MEMORANDUM OPINION


Appellant M.J. appeals from the trial court's order awarding permanent managing conservatorship of her then seventeen-year-old son E.H. to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. The trial court did not order M.J. to pay child support. Because E.H.'s eighteenth birthday was on May 29, 2008, there is no longer any live dispute.

See TEX. FAM. CODE ANN. §§ 101.003 (defining child as " a person under 18 years of age who is not and has not been married or who has not had the disabilities of minority removed for general purposes") (emphasis added), 263.404 (providing that ([t]he court may render a final order appointing the department as managing conservator of the child') (Vernon 2002) (emphasis added).

We therefore dismiss this appeal as moot.

See Ngo v. Ngo, 133 S.W.3d 688, 691(92 (Tex.App.-Corpus Christi 2003, no pet.); Kennedy v. Kennedy, 125 S.W.3d 14, 21 (Tex.App.-Austin 2002, pet. denied), cert. denied, 540 U.S. 1178 (2004); In re B.R., 822 S.W.2d 103, 107 n. 1 (Tex.App.-Tyler 1991, writ denied).


Summaries of

In Interest of E.H.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Second District, Fort Worth
Jun 12, 2008
No. 02-07-343-CV (Tex. App. Jun. 12, 2008)
Case details for

In Interest of E.H.

Case Details

Full title:IN THE INTEREST OF E.H., A MINOR CHILD

Court:Court of Appeals of Texas, Second District, Fort Worth

Date published: Jun 12, 2008

Citations

No. 02-07-343-CV (Tex. App. Jun. 12, 2008)

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