Manuel Reyes Dba First Choice Home Builders v. Sorayda Valencia

• Court: Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
• Decided: December 31, 2025
• Docket: 01-25-00857-CV
• Status: Published

Opinion

Opinion issued December 31, 2025

In The Court of Appeals For The

First District of Texas ———————————— NO. 01-25-00857-CV ——————————— MANUEL REYES AND FIRST CHOICE HOME BUILDERS, Appellants V. SORAYDA VALENCIA, Appellee

On Appeal from the 239th District Court Brazoria County, Texas Trial Court Case No. 123216-CV

MEMORANDUM OPINION

Appellants Manuel Reyes and First Choice Home Builders filed their notice

of appeal on October 14, 2025. Appellants did not pay their appellate filing fee or

establish indigence for purposes of appellate costs. See TEX. R. APP. P. 5, 20.1; see

also TEX. GOV’T CODE §§ 51.207, 51.208, 51.851(b), 51.941(a); Order, Fees Charged in the Supreme Court, in Civil Cases in the Courts of Appeals, and Before

the Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation, and in the Business Court, Misc.

Docket No. 24-9047 (Tex. July 26, 2024), reprinted in TEX. R. APP. P. app. A § B(1)

(listing fees in courts of appeals). The Clerk of this Court notified Appellants that

unless they paid the appellate filing fee by December 8, 2025, their appeal could be

dismissed. See TEX. R. APP. P. 42.3(b). To date, Appellants have not responded to

the Clerk’s notice, nor paid the appellate filing fee or established indigence for

purposes of appellate costs.

We dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution. See TEX. R. APP. P. 42.3(b)–

(c), 43.2(f). We deny any pending motions as moot.

PER CURIAM

Panel consists of Justices Rivas-Molloy, Guiney, and Morgan.