Court Opinion

ID: 9748707
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-27 16:11:00.649337+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:25:38.735713
License: Public Domain

TOM GRAY, Justice,
concurring.
Rule 20.2 requires that an appellant claiming inability to pay for the court record raise the issue by filing a motion and affidavit. Tex.R.App. P. 20.2. The rule does not specify what allegations are required to be contained in the affidavit or who must make the affidavit. From a reading of the rule it seems clear that the affidavit must raise the issue of the appellant’s ability to pay for the appellate record. I have found no requirement that the affidavit be made personally by the appellant or that there is any magic to particular words or form.
Accordingly, I write this concurring order to express my disagreement with any statements in the majority’s order which expressly or by implication suggest that the appellant must personally sign the affidavit or that there is a particular form of “indigency affidavit” that must be filed. The statements in the majority’s order with which I do not agree do not affect the result of the order. Accordingly, I concur in the remainder of the order including the result.