Emma Marie Alvarado v. Javier Orlando Cruz

Opinion

TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

NO. 03-20-00451-CV

Emma Marie Alvarado, Appellant

v.

Javier Orlando Cruz, Appellee

FROM THE 426TH DISTRICT COURT OF BELL COUNTY NO. 301,895-E, THE HONORABLE STEVEN J. DUSKIE, JUDGE PRESIDING

MEMORANDUM OPINION

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

October 12, 2020. On December 15, 2020, we notified appellant that no clerk’s record had been

filed due to her 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 28, 2020. Further, the notice advised

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

that she 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.

__________________________________________ Melissa Goodwin, Justice

Before Justices Goodwin, Triana, and Kelly

Dismissed for Want of Prosecution

Filed: January 28, 2021