Jeremy Mangum v. Abba Mangum

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: December 5, 2024
• Docket: 09-24-00171-CV
• Status: Published

Opinion

In The

Court of Appeals

Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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NO. 09-24-00171-CV __________________

JEREMY MANGUM, Appellant

V.

ABBA MANGUM, Appellee

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On Appeal from the 472nd District Court Brazos County, Texas Trial Cause No. 23-001418-CVD-472 __________________________________________________________________

MEMORANDUM OPINION

On April 29, 2024, Jeremy Mangum filed a notice of appeal from a final

judgment granting a default final decree of divorce in Trial Cause Number 23-

001418-CVD-472. 1 But after perfecting his appeal Mangum failed to file a brief.

1 Mangum filed his appeal in the Tenth District Court of Appeals. But in March 2024, the Texas Supreme Court signed a docket-equalization order and transferred the appeal to the Ninth District Court of Appeals to equalize the appellate dockets. See Tex. Gov’t Code Ann. § 73.001. 1 On October 21, 2024, the Clerk of the Ninth Court of Appeals notified the

parties that Mangum had not filed a brief and advised the parties that his appeal

would be submitted without briefs unless by October 31, 2024, Mangum filed a brief

and a motion to extend the deadline in which he had to file his brief. We warned

Mangum that if the Court submitted his appeal without briefs that the Court could

dismiss his appeal for want of prosecution.

On November 12, 2024, the Clerk notified the parties that on December 3,

2024, the appeal would be submitted to the Court without briefs and without oral

argument. See Tex. R. App. P. 39.8. Because Mangum has not filed a brief in his

appeal assigning any error to any of the trial court’s rulings, we dismiss Mangum’s

appeal for want of prosecution. See id. 38.8(a)(1), 42.3(b), 43.2(f).

APPEAL DISMISSED.

PER CURIAM

Submitted on December 3, 2024 Opinion Delivered December 5, 2024

Before Golemon, C.J., Wright and Chambers, JJ.