SECOND REQUEST FOR AN APPEAL HEARING 

However, I knew my then-wife's opposing attorney claim about not knowing 
about the appeal was false. 

I knew my then-wife's attorney had been aware of the pending appeal because I 
had included appeal documents with the Texas State Bar Association Misconduct 
Report I filed for the November 1995 investigation hearing.  

Then the State Bar Association notified me the attorney for my then-wife was 
given copies of all documents I submitted for the investigation.  

Furthermore, the appeal was discussed in the recorded hearing in which I was 
present that was also open for review by properly designated officials.

Consequently, my attorney re-filed a request for my divorce case to be heard 
before the Court of Appeals based on the evidence I submitted to the State 
Bar Association the previous November. 

About one month later, the Court of Appeals (seemingly reluctantly) granted 
the request to hear my divorce case.