Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-01-30 12:08:15.382167+00
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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

                                      NO. 03-23-00763-CV

                                    LeAnn Hilton, Appellant

                                                 v.

                                    Chris Kopacek, Appellee

            FROM THE 419TH DISTRICT COURT OF TRAVIS COUNTY
                           NO. D-1-FM-20-005474
          THE HONORABLE MAYA GUERRA GAMBLE, JUDGE PRESIDING

                            MEMORANDUM OPINION

               The clerk’s record in this appeal was due for filing in this Court on January 2, 2024.

On January 3, 2024, we notified appellant that no clerk’s record had been filed due to her failure

to pay or make arrangements to pay the trial clerk’s fee for preparing the clerk’s record. The

notice requested that appellant make arrangements for the clerk’s record and submit a status

report regarding this appeal by January 12, 2024. Further, the notice advised appellant that her

failure to comply with this request could result in the dismissal of the appeal for want of

prosecution. To date, appellant has not filed a status report or otherwise responded to this

Court’s notice, and the clerk’s record has not been filed.

               If a trial-court clerk fails to file the clerk’s record due to an appellant’s failure to

pay or make arrangements to pay for the clerk’s fee for preparing the record, the appellate court

may dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution unless the appellant was entitled to proceed
without payment of costs. Tex. R. App. P. 37.3(b). In this case, appellant has not established

that she is entitled to proceed without payment of costs. See Tex. R. Civ. P. 145. Because

appellant has failed to pay or make arrangements to pay the clerk’s fee for preparing the clerk’s

record, this appeal is dismissed for want of prosecution.

                                             __________________________________________
                                             Rosa Lopez Theofanis, Justice

Before Chief Justice Byrne, Justices Smith, and Theofanis

Dismissed for Want of Prosecution

Filed: January 26, 2024

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