Opinion
NO. 09-18-00257-CV
03-07-2019
IN THE INTEREST OF M.D.B. III
On Appeal from the 317th District Court Jefferson County, Texas
Trial Cause No. C-227 ,217-A
MEMORANDUM OPINION
On August 3, 2018, appellant filed a statement of inability to afford payment of court costs, and this Court abated the appeal and remanded the cause to the trial court for a determination of appellant's ability to pay court costs. The trial judge signed an order in which he found that appellant is not indigent. Appellant subsequently filed a motion with this Court alleging his financial circumstances had materially changed and seeking reconsideration of the issue of his indigency. This Court denied appellant's motion, and on February 8, 2019, the Court notified the parties that the filing fee had not been paid and warned that the appeal would be dismissed unless the appellant remitted the filing fee for the appeal.
Appellant has not shown that he is entitled to proceed without payment of costs. See Tex. R. App. P. 20.1. There being no reasonable explanation for the failure to pay the filing fee for the appeal, we dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution. See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3.
APPEAL DISMISSED.
/s/_________
CHARLES KREGER
Justice Submitted on March 6, 2019
Opinion Delivered March 7, 2019 Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Horton, JJ.