In The Court of Appeals Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont ____________________ NO. 09-13-00462-CV ____________________ JAMES EARL TIMMONS, Appellant V. MEKKO LYNN TIMMONS, Appellee _______________________________________________________ ______________ On Appeal from the 279th District Court Jefferson County, Texas Trial Cause No. F-218,638 ________________________________________________________ _____________ MEMORANDUM OPINION On November 20, 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. The appellant did not respond to the Court’s notice. 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 1 failure to file the record, 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 January 16, 2014 Before McKeithen, C.J., Horton and Johnson, JJ. 2