Tu Nguyen v. Relative Lending, Inc. Appeal from 10th District Court of Galveston County (memorandum opinion per curiam)

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Opinion issued February 13, 2018 In The Court of Appeals For The First District of Texas ———————————— NO. 01-17-00864-CV ——————————— TU NGUYEN, Appellant V. RELATIVE LENDING, INC., Appellee On Appeal from the 10th District Court Galveston County, Texas Trial Court Cause No. 17-CV-0790 MEMORANDUM OPINION Appellant, Tu Nguyen, proceeding pro se, has neither paid the required filing fee nor established indigence for purposes of appellate costs. See TEX. R. APP. P. 5, 20.1; see also TEX. GOV’T CODE ANN. §§ 51.207, 51.851(b), 51.941(a), 101.041(1) (West 2017); Order, Fees Charged in the Supreme Court, in Civil Cases in the Courts of Appeals, and Before the Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation, Misc. Docket No. 15-9158 (Tex. Aug. 28, 2015). On December 7, 2017, the late filing-fee notice sent from the Clerk of this Court to appellant on November 29, 2017, was returned and marked as: “RETURN TO SENDER[,] NOT DELIVERABLE AS ADDRESSED[,] UNABLE TO FORWARD.” On January 4, 2018, the Clerk of this Court sent a notice of intent to dismiss for want of prosecution to appellant, notifying him that this appeal might be dismissed unless he updated his address and paid the filing fee. See TEX. R. APP. P. 5, 9.1(b) (“A party not represented by counsel must sign any document . . . and give the party’s mailing address, telephone number, fax number, if any, and email address.”); 42.3(b), (c). Appellant failed to timely respond. Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution for failure to pay all required fees. See TEX. R. APP. P. 5, 42.3(b), (c). PER CURIAM Panel consists of Justices Jennings, Keyes, and Higley. 2

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