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Lon Clarke Ruckel v. Deborah Deniese Ruckel
Citation: domestic relations order · February 8, 2007 · US
- Extracted case name
- Lon Clarke Ruckel v. Deborah Deniese Ruckel
- Extracted reporter citation
- domestic relations order
- Docket / number
- 20971 MEMORANDUM OPINION Lon Clarke Ruckel
Machine-draft headnote
Machine-draft public headnote: Lon Clarke Ruckel v. Deborah Deniese Ruckel is included in the LexyCorpus QDRO sample set as a public CourtListener opinion with relevance to QDRO procedure / domestic relations order issues. The current annotation is conservative: it identifies source provenance, relevance signals, and evidence quotes for attorney/agent retrieval. It is not a Willie-approved legal headnote yet.
Retrieval annotation
Draft retrieval summary: this opinion has QDRO relevance score 5/5, retirement-division score 2/5, and family-law score 5/5. Use the quoted text and full opinion below before relying on the case.
Category: QDRO procedure / domestic relations order issues
Evidence quotes
domestic relations order“LARKE RUCKEL, Appellant V. DEBORAH DENIESE RUCKEL, Appellee On Appeal from the 1-A District Court Jasper County, Texas Trial Cause No. 20971 MEMORANDUM OPINION Lon Clarke Ruckel appealed an order denying his motion to clarify a qualified domestic relations order and ordering him to pay attorney's fees to the opposing party, Deborah Deniese Ruckel Yates. The appeal was submitted without briefs because the appellant failed to file his brief by September 20, 2006, the due date on the final extension granted for filing a brief. See Tex. R. App. P. 38.6(a), (d). On January 11, 2007, we notified the parties that the”
Source and provenance
- Source type
- courtlistener_qdro_opinion_full_text
- Permissions posture
- public
- Generated status
- machine draft public v0
- Review status
- gold label pending
- Jurisdiction metadata
- US
- Deterministic extraction
- reporter: domestic relations order · docket: 20971 MEMORANDUM OPINION Lon Clarke Ruckel
- Generated at
- May 14, 2026
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Clean opinion text
In The Court of Appeals Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont ____________________ NO. 09-06-033 CV ____________________ LON CLARKE RUCKEL, Appellant V. DEBORAH DENIESE RUCKEL, Appellee On Appeal from the 1-A District Court Jasper County, Texas Trial Cause No. 20971 MEMORANDUM OPINION Lon Clarke Ruckel appealed an order denying his motion to clarify a qualified domestic relations order and ordering him to pay attorney's fees to the opposing party, Deborah Deniese Ruckel Yates. The appeal was submitted without briefs because the appellant failed to file his brief by September 20, 2006, the due date on the final extension granted for filing a brief. See Tex. R. App. P. 38.6(a), (d). On January 11, 2007, we notified the parties that the appeal would be advanced without oral argument. See Tex. R. App. P. 39.9. In the absence of a brief assigning error, we dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution. See Tex. R. App. P. 38.8(a)(1). APPEAL DISMISSED. _______________________________ STEVE McKEITHEN Chief Justice Submitted on February 1, 2007 Opinion Delivered February 8, 2007 Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Horton, JJ.