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Date Created: 2023-11-15 07:09:58.755127+00
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DISMISS and Opinion Filed November 8, 2023

                                    S  In The
                            Court of Appeals
                     Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                               No. 05-23-00821-CV

                        AARON DRAKE, III, Appellant
                                  V.
                       KATOHELINE DRAKE, Appellee

               On Appeal from the 254th Judicial District Court
                            Dallas County, Texas
                    Trial Court Cause No. DF-22-01299

                        MEMORANDUM OPINION
                   Before Justices Carlyle, Smith, and Kennedy
                           Opinion by Justice Kennedy
      This appeal challenges the trial court’s November 7, 2022 final decree of

divorce. No request for findings of fact or a motion for new trial or modify judgment

was timely filed, and the conditions for a restricted appeal are not met. Accordingly,

the notice of appeal was due within thirty days of judgment or December 6, 2022.

See TEX. R. APP. P. 26.1(a), 26.3. The notice of appeal was filed August 21, 2023.

      Because the timely filing of a notice of appeal is jurisdictional, we directed

appellant to file a letter brief addressing the jurisdictional issue. See Brashear v.

Victoria Gardens of McKinney, LLC, 302 S.W.3d 542, 545 (Tex. App.—Dallas
2009, no pet.) (op. on reh’g) (timely filing of notice of appeal is jurisdictional).

Appellant complied. In his letter brief, appellant asserts details about his marriage

with appellee, but does not address our jurisdictional concerns.

      Because the notice of appeal was untimely filed, we dismiss the appeal and

all pending motions for want of jurisdiction. See TEX. R. APP. P. 42.3(a).

                                           /Nancy Kennedy/
                                           NANCY KENNEDY
                                           JUSTICE

230821F.P05

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                               S
                          Court of Appeals
                   Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                              JUDGMENT

AARON DRAKE III, Appellant                 On Appeal from the 254th Judicial
                                           District Court, Dallas County, Texas
No. 05-23-00821-CV       V.                Trial Court Cause No. DF-22-01299.
                                           Opinion delivered by Justice
KATOHELINE DRAKE, Appellee                 Kennedy, Justices Carlyle and Smith
                                           participating.

    In accordance with this Court’s opinion of this date, the appeal is
DISMISSED.

      It is ORDERED that appellee KATOHELINE DRAKE recover her costs, if
any, of this appeal from appellant AARON DRAKE III.

Judgment entered November 8, 2023.

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