Court Opinion

ID: 4879337
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-08-27 06:26:14.519451+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:12:39.925305
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In The

                                 Court of Appeals

                     Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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                               NO. 09-21-00103-CV
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                IN THE INTEREST OF Z.P. AND L.P.
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                On Appeal from the 418th District Court
                     Montgomery County, Texas
                   Trial Cause No. 10-09-10212-CV
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                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      R.L.P., the father of Z.P. and L.P., appealed from the final order in a

proceeding filed by his former spouse that modified a prior order—the order

establishing the rights of joint custody between R.L.P. and the mother of Z.P. and

L.P. After R.L.P. filed his appeal, the Clerk of the Ninth Court of Appeals sent him

notices to explain he needed to establish indigence to proceed in the appeal without

paying the required filing fee. But R.L.P. failed to respond to the letters, and R.L.P.

never filed evidence to support any allegations claiming indigence. And R.L.P. did

not respond to the letters by paying a filing fee in his appeal. See Tex. R. App. P. 5,

20.1. Finally, R.L.P. has neither arranged to pay the appellate filing fee or arranged

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to pay the fee proposed by the District Clerk to secure a clerk’s record to support his

appeal. See Tex. R. App. P. 37.3(b).

      On June 16, 2021, the Clerk of the Ninth Court of Appeals notified the parties

the Court would dismiss the appeal unless R.L.P. paid the required filing fee. In

response to the notice, R.L.P. failed to file any response. In the absence of

satisfactory explanations justifying R.L.P.’s failure to pay the filing fee for his

appeal and his failure to arrange to pay for a clerk’s record to support his appeal, we

dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution. See Tex. R. App. P. 37.3(b), 42.3.

      APPEAL DISMISSED.

                                                   PER CURIAM

Submitted on August 25, 2021
Opinion Delivered August 26, 2021

Before Golemon, C.J., Kreger and Horton, JJ.

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