in the Matter of the Marriage of Ephraim Karsagi and Alyssa Lyn Karsagi and in the Interest of E.B.K. and A.Y.K., Children
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Opinion
NUMBER 13-20-00077-CV
COURT OF APPEALS
THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS
CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
In the Matter of the Marriage of Ephraim Karsagi and Alyssa Lyn Karsagi and in the Interest of E.B.K. and A.Y.K., Children
On appeal from County Court at Law No 1 of Brazos County, Texas.
ORDER OF ABATEMENT Before Chief Justice Contreras and Justices Longoria and Perkes Order Per Curiam
Appellant, Alyssa Karsagi, filed an affidavit of indigence with the trial court on
December 20, 2019. On March 6, 2020, a contest to the affidavit was filed in this court.
Subsequently, on April 17, 2020, appellant filed a new affidavit of indigence.
Accordingly, we ORDER that pursuant to Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure
20.1(e), the trial court clerk, the court reporter, or any party to this cause must challenge
appellant’s claim of indigence filed on April 17, 2020, by filing a contest to appellant’s
declaration of inability to pay costs in the trial court within 10 days from the date of this
order. See TEX. R. APP. P. 20.1(e). If a contest is timely filed, we ORDER the trial court to conduct a hearing or sign
an order extending the time to conduct a hearing within 10 days after any contest is
filed. See TEX. R. APP. P. 20.1(i)(2)(B) (“The trial court must either conduct a hearing or
sign an order extending the time to conduct a hearing . . . within 10 days after the trial
court received a contest referred from the appellate court.”). However, the trial court may
not order the time for conducting a hearing on a contest to be extended for more than 20
days from the date the order is signed. See TEX. R. APP. P. 20.1(i)(3).
If a contest is timely filed, we ORDER the trial court, within 40 days from the date
of this order, to prepare a written order and written findings of fact and conclusions of law
regarding its indigence determination. We further ORDER the trial court clerk, as soon as
practicable but in no event later than 60 days from the date of this order, to file a
supplemental clerk’s record, containing (1) the contest; (2) the trial court’s order; and (3)
the trial court’s findings of fact and conclusions of law. The court reporter is ORDERED to
prepare and file the reporter’s record of the trial court’s hearing as soon as practicable
but in no event later than 60 days from the date of this order.
If no contest is filed or a contest is filed untimely, we ORDER the trial court clerk
to file a supplemental clerk’s record containing a certificate that states either no contest
was filed or a contest was filed untimely within 20 days from the date of this order.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
PER CURIAM
Delivered and filed the 17th day of November, 2020.
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