Okla. Stat. tit. 10, § 10-7505-7.1

A. An appeal may be taken from any final order, judgment,

decree, or any order determining a minor eligible for adoption

without terminating parental rights rendered pursuant to the

Oklahoma Adoption Code to the Supreme Court by any person aggrieved

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thereby, in the manner provided for appeals from the court as

provided in this section.

B. In an appeal concerning the adoption of a minor or the

termination of parental rights for adoption purposes, or any order

determining a minor eligible for adoption without terminating

parental rights, the appellant's designation of record shall be

filed in the trial court within ten (10) days after the date of the

judgment or order. Appellee's counter designation of record shall

be filed in the trial court ten (10) days after appellant's

designation of record is filed in the trial court.

C. All appeals of cases concerning the adoption of a minor or

the termination of parental rights for adoption purposes, or an

order determining that a minor is eligible for adoption which does

not terminate parental rights, shall be initiated by filing a

petition in error in the Supreme Court within thirty (30) days of

the filing of the order, judgment, or decree appealed from. The

record on appeal shall be completed within thirty (30) days from the

filing of the petition in error. Any response to the petition in

error shall be filed within twenty (20) days from the filing of the

petition in error.

D. The briefing schedule is established as follows:

1. Appellant's brief in chief shall be filed twenty (20) days

after the trial court clerk notifies all parties that the record is

complete and such notice has been filed in the office of the Clerk

of the Supreme Court;

2. Appellee's answer brief shall be filed fifteen (15) days

after the appellant's brief in chief is filed; and

3. Appellant's reply brief may be filed within ten (10) days

after the appellee's answer brief is filed.

E. Any appeal when docketed should have priority over all cases

pending on said docket. Adjudication of appeals and any other

proceedings concerning the adoption of the minor described in this

section shall be expedited by the Supreme Court.

F. The pendency of an appeal shall not suspend the order of the

district court regarding a minor, nor shall it remove the minor from

the custody of that court or of the person, institution, or agency

to whose care such minor has been committed, unless the Supreme

Court shall so order.