In The Court of Appeals Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont ____________________ NO. 09-18-00175-CV ____________________ IN THE INTEREST OF A.P.A., P.M.A. AND L.M.A. ________________________________________________________________________ On Appeal from the County Court at Law Polk County, Texas Trial Cause No. PC06277 ________________________________________________________________________ MEMORANDUM OPINION The trial court signed a final order in a suit to modify parent-child relationship on March 22, 2018. Balie Marie Humble, appellant, filed a notice of appeal but failed to file a brief. On October 8, 2018, we notified the parties that appellant’s brief was past due and had not been filed, that the appeal would be submitted on the record alone unless we received a brief and motion for extension of time by October 18, 2018, and we warned appellant that her failure to file a brief could result in dismissal of the appeal for want of prosecution. On October 22, 2018, having received no response to the late brief notice, we notified the parties that the appeal would be 1 submitted to the Court on November 13, 2018, without briefs and without oral argument. See Tex. R. App. P. 39.8. If an appellant fails to timely file a brief, the appellate court may dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution, unless the appellant reasonably explains the failure and the appellee is not significantly injured by the appellant’s failure to timely file a brief. See Tex. R. App. P. 38.8(a)(1). In this case, Appellant failed to assign error for appellate review by filing a brief. Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution. Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(b). APPEAL DISMISSED. ________________________________ STEVE McKEITHEN Chief Justice Submitted on November 13, 2018 Opinion Delivered November 15, 2018 Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Johnson, JJ. 2