Court Opinion

ID: 6326760
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-03-25 07:12:40.874984+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:22:16.445721
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In The

                                 Court of Appeals

                     Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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                                NO. 09-21-00363-CV
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                          IN THE INTEREST OF P.S.T.

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                On Appeal from the 279th District Court
                       Jefferson County, Texas
                     Trial Cause No. F-233,683-A
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                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Meyshoia Carter appealed the trial court’s final order modifying a support

order in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship. She did not pay the filing fee

for the appeal. On December 30, 2021, the District Clerk notified this Court that

Appellant failed to make payment arrangements for the clerk’s record. We notified

the parties that Appellant had not established indigent status and the clerk’s record

had not been filed due to Appellant’s failure to pay, or to arrange to pay, the District

Clerk’s fee for preparing the clerk’s record. We warned Appellant that the appeal

would be dismissed for want of prosecution unless Appellant established that she

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had arranged to pay the fee or that she needed additional time to do so. See Tex. R.

App. P. 37.3(b). On January 3, 2022, we notified the parties that Appellant had not

remitted the filing fee, and we warned Appellant that the appeal would be dismissed

without further notice unless she paid the filing fee by January 18, 2022. None of

the parties responded to the Court’s notices.

      In the absence of a satisfactory explanation justifying Appellant’s failure to

pay the filing fee for the appeal or to arrange to pay for a clerk’s record to support

her appeal, we dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution. See Tex. R. App. P.

37.3(b), 42.3, 43.2(f).

      APPEAL DISMISSED.

                                                           PER CURIAM

Submitted on March 23, 2022
Opinion Delivered March 24, 2022

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

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