{"id":583,"date":"2014-02-04T13:10:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T13:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/?p=583"},"modified":"2020-02-16T02:48:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T02:48:55","slug":"1-trial-courts-may-circumvent-supreme-courts-exclusive-jurisdiction-enlarge-time-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/untimely-appeal\/1-trial-courts-may-circumvent-supreme-courts-exclusive-jurisdiction-enlarge-time-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"(1) TRIAL COURTS MAY NOT CIRCUMVENT SUPREME COURT\u2019S EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION TO ENLARGE TIME FOR APPEAL."},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an order this term, the Rhode Island Supreme Court held that the Family Court exceeded its authority when it vacated and reissued an order for the sole purpose of permitting a party sufficient time to file an appeal.\u00a0 In re Kyla C., No. 2011-98-Appeal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In In re Kyla C<\/i>., over a year after the Family Court had issued a decree terminating the respondent\u2019s parental rights to his daughter, Kyla C., and after the respondent missed the deadline for filing an appeal, the Family Court vacated the termination of parental rights decree and issued a new termination decree to afford the respondent an opportunity to file a timely appeal.\u00a0 Id<\/i>. at 1.<\/p>\n

When the case came before the Supreme Court, the Court issued an order declining to entertain the appeal on the grounds that it was not properly before it.\u00a0 In doing so, the Court recognized that \u201c\u2018courts of this state lack jurisdiction to vacate and then to re-enter a judgment as a means of extending the time allowed under the applicable statutory limitation for the claiming of an appeal.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 Id<\/i>. at 2 (quoting Ferranti v. M.A. Gammino Construction Co<\/i>., 289 A.2d 56, 57 (R.I. 1972)).<\/p>\n

In the Court\u2019s opinion, to hold otherwise and \u201cpermit a lower court justice to vacate and reenter an order to render an untimely appeal timely \u2018would have the effect of enabling a . . . judge to modify and enlarge the applicable statute by judicial fiat.\u00a0 That is clearly beyond his power.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 Id<\/i>. at 3 (quoting Ferranti<\/i>, 289 A.2d at 57).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an order this term, the Rhode Island Supreme Court held that the Family Court exceeded its authority when it vacated and reissued an order for the sole purpose of permitting a party sufficient time to file an appeal.\u00a0 In re Kyla…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,14,77],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-untimely-appeal","tag-appellate-practice","tag-rhode-island-supreme-court","tag-untimely-appeals"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}