In the Court of Appeals Second Appellate District of Texas at Fort Worth ___________________________ No. 02-23-00350-CV ___________________________ IN THE INTEREST OF D.B. AND G.B., CHILDREN

On Appeal from the 467th District Court Denton County, Texas Trial Court No. 18-10967-16

Before Womack, Wallach, and Walker, JJ.

Memorandum Opinion by Justice Womack MEMORANDUM OPINION On September 25, 2023, we received a document from Appellant T.B. (Mother) entitled “Notice of Appeal Pursuant to Provisions of §[ ]201.015, Texas Family Code.” See Tex. Fam. Code Ann. § 201.015 (authorizing de novo hearing before the referring court of certain rulings made by an associate judge). On September 27, 2023, we sent the parties a letter informing them that we had received a copy of Mother’s notice of appeal in this case but that it appeared that the notice of appeal was premature because the trial court judge had not signed an order. See Tex. R. App. P. 26.1(a), 27.1(a). We allowed the parties a reasonable time to correct the defect in the record, giving them until October 17, 2023, to furnish us with a signed copy of the order that Mother seeks to appeal. See Tex. R. App. P. 44.3, 44.4(a)(2).

We stated that if no order was signed and furnished to us by that date, then this appeal would be dismissed for want of jurisdiction. See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a), 43.2(f).

The deadline has passed, and we have not received a signed copy of a final judgment or appealable order. We thus dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.

See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a), 43.2(f); see also Lehmann v. Har-Con Corp., 39 S.W.3d 191, 195, 200 (Tex. 2001) (holding that, generally, appeals may be taken only from final judgments or interlocutory orders authorized by statute).

/s/ Dana Womack Dana Womack Justice Delivered: November 30, 2023