State ex rel. S.J.H. v. M.S.H.

GREMILLION, Judge.

hThe Defendant/Appellant, M.S.H., appeals the judgment of the trial court denying her motion for new trial as being untimely.1 For the following reasons, we grant the State’s peremptory exception of prescription and dismiss M.S.H.’s appeal as untimely.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

M.S.H.’s parental rights were terminated by the trial court following a March 4, 2010 hearing. The judgment terminating her rights was filed into the record on March 9, 2010. M.S.H. filed a motion for new trial on July 15, 2010. That same day she filed a petition to annul judgment arguing that…