in the Interest of G.T.

In The Court of Appeals Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont ____________________ NO. 09-12-00572-CV ____________________ IN THE INTEREST OF G.T. _______________________________________________________ ______________ On Appeal from the County Court at Law No. 1 Montgomery County, Texas Trial Cause No. 10-08-09110 CV ________________________________________________________ _____________ MEMORANDUM OPINION On January 11, 2013, 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 1 no reasonable explanation for the failure to pay the filing fee for the appeal, the appeal is dismissed for want of prosecution. Tex. R. App. P. 37.3(b); Tex. R. App. P. 42.3. APPEAL DISMISSED. ________________________________ STEVE McKEITHEN Chief Justice Opinion Delivered February 28, 2013 Before McKeithen, C.J., Gaultney and Horton, JJ. 2