In the Interest of M.D.B. III Appeal from 317th District Court of Jefferson County (memorandum opinion)
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In The Court of Appeals Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont ________________ NO. 09-18-00257-CV ________________ IN THE INTEREST OF M.D.B. III __________________________________________________________________ On Appeal from the 317th District Court Jefferson County, Texas Trial Cause No. C-227,217-A __________________________________________________________________ MEMORANDUM OPINION On August 3, 2018, appellant filed a statement of inability to afford payment of court costs, and this Court abated the appeal and remanded the cause to the trial court for a determination of appellant’s ability to pay court costs. The trial judge signed an order in which he found that appellant is not indigent. Appellant subsequently filed a motion with this Court alleging his financial circumstances had materially changed and seeking reconsideration of the issue of his indigency. This Court denied appellant’s motion, and on February 8, 2019, the Court notified the 1 parties that the filing fee had not been paid and warned that the appeal would be dismissed unless the appellant remitted the filing fee for the appeal. Appellant has not shown that he is entitled to proceed without payment of costs. See Tex. R. App. P. 20.1. There being no reasonable explanation for the failure to pay the filing fee for the appeal, we dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution. See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3. APPEAL DISMISSED. ___________________________ CHARLES KREGER Justice Submitted on March 6, 2019 Opinion Delivered March 7, 2019 Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Horton, JJ. 2
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