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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

                                      NO. 03-03-00175-CV

                                   Boknam Chong, Appellant

                                                 v.

             Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services, Appellee

     FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF TRAVIS COUNTY, 345TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
        NO. FM200584, HONORABLE W. JEANNE MEURER, JUDGE PRESIDING

                            MEMORANDUM OPINION

               Boknam Chong appeals from the judgment terminating her parental rights to her

child, S.Y. The district court found that Chong engaged in conduct or knowingly placed S.Y. with

persons who engaged in conduct that endangered S.Y.’s physical or emotional well-being. The court

also found that Chong suffers from a mental or emotional illness or a mental deficiency that rendered

and would continue to render her unable to provide for S.Y.’s needs.

               Chong’s brief is overdue. The clerk’s record was filed on April 17, 2003. No

reporter’s record was filed.1 Chong’s brief was originally due May 7, 2003. This Court’s clerk sent

a notice informing Chong that her appeal would be dismissed unless she filed a brief, motion to

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          Although the district court appointed an attorney for Chong because she was indigent, after
trial, the district court found that Chong was not indigent and denied Chong’s request for the
preparation of the clerk’s record and reporter’s record without charge.
extend time to file brief, or other response by May 27, 2003. Subsequently, however, the clerk filed

supplemental records that contained findings of fact and conclusions of law that were signed by the

district court on June 9, 2003 (supplemental record received on June 26, 2003). Appellant’s brief

was thus due no later than July 26, 2003. No brief was filed, and this Court’s clerk sent a second

notice of overdue brief, warning that the Court would dismiss absent a brief, motion, or other

response by August 5, 2003. No brief, motion, or other response has been filed.

               Accordingly, we dismiss this appeal for want of prosecution. See Tex. R. App. P.

42.3(b).

                                              Jan P. Patterson, Justice

Before Chief Justice Law, Justices B. A. Smith and Patterson

Dismissed for Want of Prosecution

Filed: October 9, 2003

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