Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-01-15 11:09:22.768536+00
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In the
           Court of Appeals
   Second Appellate District of Texas
            at Fort Worth
         ___________________________
              No. 02-23-00283-CV
         ___________________________

ERIC ANTONIO ZACHARIAH ANDERSON, Appellant

                        V.

        TIFFANY ANDERSON, Appellee

     On Appeal from County Court at Law No. 1
              Tarrant County, Texas
          Trial Court No. 2023-000671-1

      Before Bassel, Womack, and Wallach, JJ.
        Per Curiam Memorandum Opinion
                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Appellant Eric Antonio Zachariah Anderson attempts to appeal from a

March 9, 2023 judgment. On August 11, 2023, we sent the parties a letter, which

stated the following:

      The court has received a copy of the notice of appeal in this case. See
      Tex. R. App. P. 25.1(e). The court is concerned it may not have
      jurisdiction over this appeal because the notice of appeal was not timely
      filed. Tex. R. App. P. 26.1. The trial court’s judgment was signed
      March 9, 2023. A motion to modify judgment was filed March 30, 2023.
      Therefore, the notice of appeal was due June 7, 2023, but was not filed
      until August 8, 2023.

             Unless the appellant or any party desiring to continue the appeal
      files with the court, on or before Monday, August 21, 2023, a response
      showing grounds for continuing the appeal, this appeal may be dismissed
      for want of jurisdiction. Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a), 44.3.

Shortly thereafter, we received a suggestion of bankruptcy, and we stayed the case.

      After the bankruptcy was dismissed and this appeal was reinstated, we sent the

parties a second letter similar to the one quoted above, giving them until

November 17, 2023, to file a response showing grounds for continuing the appeal.

We have received no response.

      The time for filing a notice of appeal is jurisdictional in this court, and absent a

timely filed notice of appeal or extension request, we must dismiss the appeal. See

Tex. R. App. P. 2, 25.1(b), 26.3; Jones v. City of Houston, 976 S.W.2d 676, 677 (Tex.

1998); Verburgt v. Dorner, 959 S.W.2d 615, 617 (Tex. 1997). Because the notice of

appeal was untimely, we dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction. See Tex. R. App.

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P. 42.3(a), 43.2(f); Samiei v. Am. Furukawa, Inc., No. 02-23-00076-CV, 2023 WL

2805899, at *1 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth Apr. 6, 2023, no pet.) (per curiam) (mem.

op.).

                                               Per Curiam

Delivered: January 11, 2024

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