Court Opinion

ID: 9943707
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Date Created: 2024-02-24 18:11:32.789346+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:47:52.134673
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NUMBER 13-23-00468-CV

                              COURT OF APPEALS

                    THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                      CORPUS CHRISTI – EDINBURG

        IN THE INTEREST OF L.A.F., E.F. III, AND J.F., CHILDREN.

                    On appeal from the 319th District Court
                          of Nueces County, Texas.

                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

                   Before Justices Longoria, Silva, and Peña
                    Memorandum Opinion by Justice Silva

       On November 1, 2023, appellant Eduardo Franco a/k/a Eduardo Franco Jr. filed a

pro se notice of appeal from a child support review order. On November 3, 2023, the

Clerk of this Court requested appellant to pay the $205.00 filing fee for the notice of appeal

within ten days. See TEX. R. APP. P. 5 (“A party who is not excused by statute or these

rules from paying costs must pay—at the time an item is presented for filing—whatever

fees are required by statute or Supreme Court order. The appellate court may enforce

this rule by any order that is just.”); TEX. GOV’T CODE ANN. § 51.207 (delineating the
required fees and costs in an appellate court). The Clerk also advised appellant that the

notice of appeal failed to comply with Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure 9.1(b), 9.5,

25.1(d)(1), 25.1(d)(2), and 25.1(d)(4), and requested correction of these defects. See TEX.

R. APP. P. 9.1(b), 9.5, 25.1(d)(1), 25.1(d)(2), 25.1(d)(4); see also id. R. 37.1. On January

11, 2024, the Clerk notified appellant that he was delinquent in submitted the filing fee for

the notice of appeal and informed him that the appeal would be dismissed if the filing fee

was not paid. See id. R. 42.3(b), (c).

       To date, appellant has neither paid the filing fee for the notice of appeal nor filed a

corrected notice of appeal. This Court has the authority to dismiss an appeal because the

appellant has failed to comply with a requirement of the appellate rules, a court order, or

a notice from the clerk requiring a response or other action within a specified time. See

id. R. 42.3(b), (c); Smith v. DC Civil Constr., LLC, 521 S.W.3d 75, 76 (Tex. App.—San

Antonio 2017, no pet.). Here, appellant has not paid the appellate filing fee and has not

filed a corrected notice of appeal. Accordingly, we dismiss this appeal. See TEX. R. APP.

P. 42.3(b), (c).

                                                                CLARISSA SILVA
                                                                Justice

Delivered and filed on the
22nd day of February, 2024.

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