In The Court of Appeals Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont ____________________ NO. 09-13-00065-CV ____________________ TRISHA WAKAT SHAFER, Appellant V. JACK NEWTON SHAFER, Appellee _______________________________________________________ ______________ On Appeal from the 418th District Court Montgomery County, Texas Trial Cause No. 10-06-06422 CV ________________________________________________________ _____________ 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 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.

________________________________ STEVE McKEITHEN Chief Justice

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