Court Opinion

ID: 4308578
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2018-08-30 14:27:38.479829+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:43:01.834707
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In The

                                 Court of Appeals
                     Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
                            ____________________
                                NO. 09-18-00233-CV
                            ____________________

                   IN THE INTEREST OF C.A.J. AND K.T.J.
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                    On Appeal from the 317th District Court
                          Jefferson County, Texas
                        Trial Cause No. C-214,028-C
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                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Brandon Lee Jacks, Appellant, filed a notice of appeal from a final order in a

suit affecting the parent-child relationship. Despite written notices from this Court

and an opportunity to cure, to date, Appellant has neither established indigence nor

paid the filing fee for the appeal. See Tex. R. App. P. 5, 20.1. In addition, no clerk’s

record has been filed, and the clerk responsible for preparing the record in this appeal

informed the Court that Appellant did not make arrangements to pay for the record.

See Tex. R. App. P. 37.3(b). On July 16, 2018, we notified the parties that the appeal

would be dismissed unless the filing fee was paid or Appellant filed a motion which

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states the facts relied upon to reasonably explain the need for additional time to file

the record. Appellant did not respond to the Court’s notices.

      There being no satisfactory explanation for the 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.

                                              ________________________________
                                                    CHARLES KREGER
                                                         Justice

Submitted on August 29, 2018
Opinion Delivered August 30, 2018

Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Johnson, JJ.

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