Court Opinion

ID: 4374760
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2019-03-07 15:42:39.469547+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:24:15.947877
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In The

                               Court of Appeals
                    Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
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                              NO. 09-18-00257-CV
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                      IN THE INTEREST OF M.D.B. III

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                On Appeal from the 317th District Court
                       Jefferson County, Texas
                     Trial Cause No. C-227,217-A
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                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

      On August 3, 2018, appellant filed a statement of inability to afford payment

of court costs, and this Court abated the appeal and remanded the cause to the trial

court for a determination of appellant’s ability to pay court costs. The trial judge

signed an order in which he found that appellant is not indigent. Appellant

subsequently filed a motion with this Court alleging his financial circumstances had

materially changed and seeking reconsideration of the issue of his indigency. This

Court denied appellant’s motion, and on February 8, 2019, the Court notified the

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parties that the filing fee had not been paid and warned that the appeal would be

dismissed unless the appellant remitted the filing fee for the appeal.

      Appellant has not shown that he is entitled to proceed without payment of

costs. See Tex. R. App. P. 20.1. There being no reasonable explanation for the failure

to pay the filing fee for the appeal, we dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution.

See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3.

      APPEAL DISMISSED.

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                                                    CHARLES KREGER
                                                         Justice

Submitted on March 6, 2019
Opinion Delivered March 7, 2019

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

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