Rita Mary Gause v. Thomas X. Gause

OPINION

Bob E. Shannon, Justice

Appellant, Rita Mary Gause, appeals from the summary judgment of the district court of Fayette County in a suit filed by appellee, Thomas X. Gause, to determine and enforce the terms of a lost inter vivos trust created by his father.

We first must determine the Court’s jurisdiction to entertain the appeal. The summary judgment was signed on August 17, 2011. The parties later filed an agreed motion to sever. The order granting severance bears the signature date of March 6, 2012, and recites, in part, “This order also constitutes a final judgment against Defendant…