                                           In The

                                   Court of Appeals
                      Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
                               ____________________
                                  NO. 09-12-00552-CV
                               ____________________

                         KAREN WILLIAMSON, Appellant

                                             V.

  OPAL FARTHING, LOIS HESSER, LISA GALLOWAY, FLO WARREN
              AND CONNIE HENDRICKS, Appellees
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                      On Appeal from the 284th District Court
                           Montgomery County, Texas
                          Trial Cause No. 10-02-01875 CV
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                                          ORDER

       Karen Williamson filed an affidavit of indigence in the appellate court and

requested that a clerk’s record and a reporter’s record be prepared. See TEX. R. APP. P.

20.1(c)(1),(3). The appellees filed a contest. See TEX. R. APP. P. 20.1(e). When an

affidavit of indigence is filed in the appellate court and a contest is filed, the Court may

refer the matter to the trial court. See TEX. R. APP. P. 20.1(h)(4).

       It is, therefore, ORDERED that the appeal is abated and the case is remanded to

the trial court for a determination of the appellant’s indigence. The trial court shall hear

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evidence and grant the appropriate relief. See TEX. R. APP. P. 20.1(h)(4). The trial court

shall set a hearing and notify the parties and the court reporter of the setting, and shall

either conduct a hearing within ten days of receiving the referred contest from this Court

or within that time sign an order extending the hearing date for not more than twenty

days. See TEX. R. APP. P. 20.1(i) (1), (2)(B), (3). Unless the trial court signs an order

sustaining the contest within the period set for the hearing, the affidavit’s allegations will

be deemed true.      See TEX. R. APP. P. 20.1(i)(4).       A supplemental clerk’s record

containing any orders signed by the trial court in connection with the contest and any

documents filed with the trial court in connection with the contest, together with a

reporter’s record of any hearing conducted pursuant to this Order, shall be filed with the

Court of Appeals by April 1, 2013.

       ORDER ENTERED February 28, 2013.


                                                                      PER CURIAM




Before McKeithen, C.J., Gaultney and Horton, JJ.




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