                                       In The

                                Court of Appeals
                    Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
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                               NO. 09-13-00493-CV
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                         IN THE INTEREST OF H.M.S.
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                    On Appeal from the 279th District Court
                           Jefferson County, Texas
                         Trial Cause No. F-210,030-B
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                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

      On January 21, 2014, we notified the parties that the appeal would be

dismissed for want of prosecution unless arrangements were made for filing the

record or the appellant explained why additional time was needed to file the

record. We also notified the parties that the appeal would be dismissed unless the

appellant remitted the filing fee for the appeal. The appellant did not respond to the

Court’s notices. The appellant did not file an affidavit of indigence and is not

entitled to proceed without payment of costs. See Tex. R. App. P. 20.1. There

being no satisfactory explanation for the failure to file the record, and there being

no satisfactory explanation for the appellant’s failure to pay the filing fee for the

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appeal, the appeal is dismissed for want of prosecution. Tex. R. App. P. 37.3(b);

Tex. R. App. P. 42.3.

      APPEAL DISMISSED.


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                                                  STEVE McKEITHEN
                                                     Chief Justice


Opinion Delivered March 13, 2014

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




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