Court Opinion

ID: 4374761
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Date Created: 2019-03-07 15:42:39.780599+00
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In The

                                 Court of Appeals
                     Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
                              ____________________

                               NO. 09-19-00021-CV
                              ____________________

                          IN THE INTEREST OF H.H.

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                On Appeal from the 317th District Court
                       Jefferson County, Texas
                      Trial Cause No. C-231,992
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                              MEMORANDUM OPINION

      This matter is an accelerated appeal, in which pro se appellant J.H. appeals

the termination of his parental rights to H.H.

      Despite written notices from this Court and an opportunity to cure, to date,

J.H. has neither established indigence nor paid the filing fee for the appeal. See Tex.

R. App. P. 5, 20.1. A clerk’s record has not been filed, and the clerk responsible for

preparing the record in this appeal informed the Court that J.H. did not make

arrangements to pay for the record. See Tex. R. App. P. 37.3(b). On February 8,

2019, we notified the parties that the appeal would be dismissed unless the filing fee

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was paid or J.H. filed a motion which states the facts relied upon to explain the need

for additional time to file the record. J.H. did not respond to the Court’s notices.1

      There being no satisfactory explanation for J.H.’s failure to pay the filing fee

for the appeal, and there being no satisfactory explanation for the failure to file the

clerk’s record, we dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution. See Tex. R. App. P.

37.3(b), 42.3.

      APPEAL DISMISSED.

                                               ___________________________
                                                     LEANNE JOHNSON
                                                          Justice

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

Before Kreger, Horton, and Johnson, JJ.

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        The address appellant provided with his notice of appeal indicates that he
was incarcerated when he filed the notice of appeal. This Court mailed notices to
both the address of the facility where appellant was incarcerated and to appellant’s
last known previous address.
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