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§10-7505-7.1.
§10-7505-7.1.
A. An appeal may be taken from any final order, judgment, decree, or
any order determining a minor eligible for adoption without
terminating parental rights rendered pursuant to the Oklahoma Adoption
Code to the Supreme Court by any person aggrieved thereby, in the
manner provided for appeals from the court as provided in this
section.
B. In an appeal concerning the adoption of a minor or the termination
of parental rights for adoption purposes, or any order determining a
minor eligible for adoption without terminating parental rights, the
appellant's designation of record shall be filed in the trial court
within ten (10) days after the date of the judgment or order.
Appellee's counter designation of record shall be filed in the trial
court ten (10) days after appellant's designation of record is filed
in the trial court.
C. All appeals of cases concerning the adoption of a minor or the
termination of parental rights for adoption purposes, or an order
determining that a minor is eligible for adoption which does not
terminate parental rights, shall be initiated by filing a petition in
error in the Supreme Court within thirty (30) days of the filing of
the order, judgment, or decree appealed from. The record on appeal
shall be completed within thirty (30) days from the filing of the
petition in error. Any response to the petition in error shall be
filed within twenty (20) days from the filing of the petition in
error.
D. The briefing schedule is established as follows:
1. Appellant's brief in chief shall be filed twenty (20) days after
the trial court clerk notifies all parties that the record is complete
and such notice has been filed in the office of the Clerk of the
Supreme Court;
2. Appellee's answer brief shall be filed fifteen (15) days after the
appellant's brief in chief is filed; and
3. Appellant's reply brief may be filed within ten (10) days after the
appellee's answer brief is filed.
E. Any appeal when docketed should have priority over all cases
pending on said docket. Adjudication of appeals and any other
proceedings concerning the adoption of the minor described in this
section shall be expedited by the Supreme Court.
F. The pendency of an appeal shall not suspend the order of the
district court regarding a minor, nor shall it remove the minor from
the custody of that court or of the person, institution, or agency to
whose care such minor has been committed, unless the Supreme Court
shall so order.
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