Court Opinion

ID: 9399158
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-06-02 07:09:41.393848+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:19:39.164502
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In The

                                 Court of Appeals

                     Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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                                NO. 09-23-00062-CV
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                  IN THE INTEREST OF K.N.D. AND P.M.D.

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               On Appeal from the 253rd District Court
                        Liberty County, Texas
                   Trial Cause No. 22DC-CV-01197
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                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Shanika Deontinea Underwood filed a notice of appeal from a judgment in a

suit affecting the parent-child relationship. On February 24, 2023, we sent Appellant

a certified bill of costs for the filing fee for the appeal. On April 12, 2023, through a

notice issued by the Clerk of the Court, we warned the parties that Appellant had not

remitted the filing fee and that unless she paid the fee, the Court would dismiss the

appeal without further notice on any date after April 27, 2023. Appellant neither paid

the filing fee nor asserted that she was unable to afford payment of costs. See Tex.

R. App. P. 5, 20.1. None of the parties responded to the Clerk’s notices.

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      In the absence of a satisfactory explanation justifying the appellant’s failure

to pay the filing fee for the appeal, we dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution.

See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3, 43.2(f).

      APPEAL DISMISSED.

                                                          PER CURIAM

Submitted on May 31, 2023
Opinion Delivered June 1, 2023

Before Golemon, C.J., Johnson and Wright, JJ.

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