Court Opinion

ID: 9407490
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-07-07 16:04:36.998579+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:20:38.696992
License: Public Domain

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE

    MARK DUGAN,1                               §
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          Respondent Below,                    §   No. 143, 2023
          Appellant,                           §
                                               §   Court Below—Family Court
          v.                                   §   of the State of Delaware
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    DIANE DUGAN,                               §   File No. CN22-02010
                                               §   Petition No. 22-08255
          Petitioner Below,                    §
          Appellee.                            §

                               Submitted: June 21, 2023
                               Decided:   July 6, 2023

                                        ORDER

         On April 28, 2023, the appellant, Mark Dugan, filed a notice of appeal from

the Family Court’s order awarding child support. The Senior Court Clerk directed

Dugan to pay the filing fee or file a motion to proceed in forma pauperis by May 15,

2023. Dugan did not pay the filing fee or file a motion to proceed in forma pauperis.

On June 5, 2023, the Senior Court Clerk issued a notice, by certified mail, directing

Dugan to show cause why this appeal should not be dismissed for his failure to pay

the filing fee or file a motion to proceed in forma pauperis. Postal records show

delivery of the notice to show cause on June 7, 2023. A timely response to the notice

to show cause was due on or before June 20, 2023. To date, Dugan has not

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    The Court previously assigned pseudonyms to the parties under Supreme Court Rule 7(d).
responded to the notice to show cause, paid the filing fee, or filed a motion to proceed

in forma pauperis. Dismissal of this appeal is therefore deemed to be unopposed.

      NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, under Supreme Court Rules 3(b)(2)

and 29(b), that this appeal is DISMISSED.

                                        BY THE COURT:

                                        /s/ Gary F. Traynor
                                              Justice

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