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Date Created: 2023-04-04 10:07:20.22147+00
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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

                                     NO. 03-22-00803-CV

                                    Carlos Tello, Appellant

                                                v.

              Office of the Attorney General, Child-Support Division, Appellee

              FROM THE 53RD DISTRICT COURT OF TRAVIS COUNTY
  NO. D-1-AG-21-000470, THE HONORABLE MADELEINE CONNOR, JUDGE PRESIDING

                            MEMORANDUM OPINION

PER CURIAM

               Appellant Carlos Tello has filed a motion challenging the trial court’s order,

signed on December 9, 2023, sustaining the Office of the Attorney General’s contest to his

statement of inability to afford payment of court costs. See Tex. R. Civ. P. 145(g)(1). Having

reviewed the motion and the record, we cannot conclude that the trial court’s order constitutes an

abuse of discretion.1 See Basaldua v. Hadden, 298 S.W.3d 238, 241 (Tex. App.—San Antonio

2009, no pet.) (reviewing trial court’s order sustaining contest to indigency under abuse-of-

discretion standard); see also Bui v. Beck & Co. Real Estate Servs., Inc., No. 03-16-00882-CV,

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            Tello previously sought review of the trial court’s oral ruling on the challenge to his
statement of inability to pay court costs. Tello v. Office of the Attorney Gen., No. 03-22-00668-
CV, 2022 Tex. App. LEXIS 8990, at *1 (Tex. App.—Austin Dec. 8, 2022, no pet.) (mem. op.).
We concluded that we could not review the merits of the trial court’s decision in the absence of
a signed order in compliance with Rule 145, subsection (f), and at that time, no such order had
been signed. Id. at *2. As a result, we dismissed the cause for want of jurisdiction. Id. After
the trial court signed an order in compliance with subsection (f), Tello filed this new action.
2017 Tex. App. LEXIS 476, at *1 (Tex. App.—Austin Jan. 19, 2017, no pet.) (mem. op.) (per

curiam) (same). Accordingly, we deny Tello’s motion. See Tex. R. Civ. P. 145(g)(4).

Before Justices Baker, Smith, and Jones*

Filed: March 31, 2023

       *
       Before J. Woodfin Jones, Chief Justice (Retired), Third Court of Appeals, sitting by
assignment. See Tex. Gov’t Code § 74.003(b).
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