Court Opinion

ID: 9913127
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-12-26 21:08:47.912314+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:07:23.418823
License: Public Domain

TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

                                      NO. 03-23-00734-CV

    Luan Duy Nguyen, Individually and as Trustee for the Luan Duy Nguyen Revocable
      Management Trust and as Trustee for the Doan-Nghiem Thi Nguyen Revocable
                            Management Trust, Appellant

                                                 v.

   Rufina Hemmasi, and David Hemmasi, as Executor for the Estate of Majid Hemmasi,
                    Deceased, d/b/a DRFM Investment, Appellees

            FROM THE PROBATE COURT NO. 1 OF TRAVIS COUNTY
  NO. C-1-PB-23-001674, THE HONORABLE GUY S. HERMAN, JUDGE PRESIDING

                            MEMORANDUM OPINION

               The clerk’s record in this appeal was due for filing in this Court on November 27, 2023.

On November 27, 2023, we notified appellant that no clerk’s record had been filed due to his

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 December 7, 2023. Further, the notice advised appellant that his

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. See Tex. R. App. P. 37.3(b). In this case, appellant has not established that he

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. All pending motions are dismissed as moot.

                                               __________________________________________
                                               Edward Smith, Justice

Before Justices Baker, Triana, and Smith

Dismissed for Want of Prosecution

Filed: December 21, 2023

                                                  2