Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-01-23 11:09:49.156446+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:21:37.459501
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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

                                      NO. 03-23-00429-CV

                                  Joey Jerome Key, Appellant

                                                 v.

                                  Angela Denise Key, Appellee

                FROM THE 264TH DISTRICT COURT OF BELL COUNTY
          NO. 23DFAM338016, THE HONORABLE WADE NICHOLAS FAULKNER,
                                JUDGE PRESIDING

                            MEMORANDUM OPINION

               The clerk’s record in this appeal was due for filing in this Court on September 28,

2023. On October 3, 2023, we notified Appellant Joey Key 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 Joey make arrangements for the clerk’s record and

submit a status report regarding this appeal by October 13, 2023. Further, the notice advised

Joey that his failure to comply with this request could result in the dismissal of the appeal for

want of prosecution. To date, Joey 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. Tex. R. App. P. 37.3(b). In this case, Joey has not established that he

is entitled to proceed without payment of costs. See Tex. R. Civ. P. 145. Because Joey 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.

                                               __________________________________________
                                               Edward Smith, Justice

Before Chief Justice Byrne, Justices Smith and Theofanis

Dismissed for Want of Prosecution

Filed: January 19, 2024

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