NUMBER 13-02-570-CV

                             COURT OF APPEALS

                   THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                                CORPUS CHRISTI

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JIMMY NEIL FARMER,                                                           Appellant,

                                                   v.

KIMBERLY JOYCE FARMER,                                                    Appellee.

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                        On appeal from the 130th District Court

                                of Matagorda County, Texas

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                                   O P I N I O N

                   Before Justices Dorsey, Rodriguez, and Castillo

                                       Opinion Per Curiam

Appellant, JIMMY NEIL FARMER, attempted to perfect an appeal from a judgment entered by the 130th District Court of Matagorda County, Texas, in cause number 00-J-0480-D.  Judgment in this cause was signed on October 19, 2000.  No timely motion for new trial was filed.  Pursuant to Tex. R. App. P. 26.1, appellant=s notice of appeal was due on November 18, 2000, but was not filed until October 21, 2002. 

Notice of this defect was given so that steps could be taken to correct the defect, if it could be done.  Appellant was advised that, if the defect was not corrected within ten days from the date of receipt of this Court=s letter, the appeal would be dismissed.  To date, appellant has failed to correct the defect.

The Court, having examined and fully considered the documents on file, appellant=s failure to timely perfect his appeal, and appellant=s failure to correct the defect, is of the opinion that the appeal should be dismissed for want of jurisdiction.  The appeal is hereby DISMISSED FOR WANT OF JURISDICTION.

PER CURIAM

Do not publish.

Tex. R. App. P. 47.3.

Opinion delivered and filed this

the 19th day of December, 2002.