in the Interest of A.G.J.

In The

Court of Appeals

Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont __________________

NO. 09-21-00007-CV __________________

IN THE INTEREST OF A.G.J. __________________________________________________________________ On Appeal from the County Court at Law No. 2

Orange County, Texas

Trial Cause No. E200504-D __________________________________________________________________ MEMORANDUM OPINION

B.C.J. appealed from a judgment signed December 14, 2020, terminating his parental rights to A.G.J., a minor. On January 19, 2021, we notified the parties that the clerk’s record had not been filed, apparently because B.C.J. had failed to arrange to pay the fees the District Clerk charges to prepare the record. In the notice, we also warned B.C.J. that his appeal would be dismissed for want of prosecution unless he established that he had arranged to pay the fees he is required to pay to appeal or that he needed additional time to do so. The Court received no response to the notice.

The record before us contains no affidavit of indigence, signed by B.C.J. The record also shows that B.C.J. has not shown that he is entitled to proceed without payment of costs. See Tex. R. App. P. 20.1. Absent a satisfactory explanation for B.C.J.’s failure to file the Clerk’s Record in his appeal, we dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution. See Tex. R. App. P. 37.3(b); see also Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(b).

APPEAL DISMISSED.

PER CURIAM

Submitted on March 10, 2021

Opinion Delivered March 11, 2021

Before Kreger, Horton, and Johnson, JJ.