Court Opinion

ID: 4030566
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-09-01 14:23:12.042393+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:29:34.628084
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In The

                                Court of Appeals
                    Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
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                              NO. 09-16-00251-CV
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                IN THE INTEREST OF R.L.H. JR. and R.G.H.

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                    On Appeal from the 279th District Court
                           Jefferson County, Texas
                         Trial Cause No. F-218,870-C
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                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

      The appellant filed a notice of appeal more than thirty days after the trial

court signed the final order in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship. We

notified the appellant that the notice of appeal was filed late but that he could

request an extension of time for filing the appeal, and we sent a fee bill to the

appellant. See Tex. R. App. P. 5, 26.3. The appellant neither paid the filing fee for

the appeal nor requested an extension of time. On August 12, 2016, we provided an

additional ten days to pay the filing fee or file a motion for extension of time and

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an affidavit of indigence. See Tex. R. App. P. 20.1(c). The appellant did not file a

response within the specified time. See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(c).

      Despite having been given written notice and an opportunity to cure, the

appellant neither paid the filing fee nor established that he is entitled to proceed

without payment of costs. See Tex. R. App. P. 20.1. We dismiss the appeal for

want of prosecution. See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3.

      APPEAL DISMISSED.

                                             ________________________________
                                                     CHARLES KREGER
                                                           Justice

Submitted on August 31, 2016
Opinion Delivered September 1, 2016

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

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