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Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed July 3,
2007.

In The

Fourteenth
Court of Appeals

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NO. 14-06-01057-CV

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IN THE INTEREST OF S.M.

On Appeal
from the Probate Court No. 3

Harris
County, Texas

Trial Court
Cause No. 129,211

M E M O R
A N D U M   O P I N I O N

This is an accelerated appeal
from an order for mental health services signed November 22, 2006.
Appellant is represented by Tom Zakes.  The clerk=s record was filed on November
30, 2006, with a notation that it was prepared without advance payment of
costs.  The court reporter, Robin (Kulhanek) Day, notified this court
that she had not been requested to prepare a reporter=s record in this case.  In
addition, our records show that appellant has neither established
indigence nor paid the $125.00 appellate filing fee.  See
Tex. R. App. P. 5
(requiring
payment of fees in civil cases unless indigent).  Appellant was notified
that the appellate filing fee was due on November 29, 2006, and on January
4, 2007.  Appellant filed no response.

On January 3, 2007, the court
sent a notice to the parties stating that unless appellant provided proof
within 15 days that she had requested the reporter=s record and paid for its
preparation, if not indigent, then the appeal  would be considered
without a reporter=s record.  No response was
filed.

The court abated the appeal and
directed the trial court to conduct a hearing to determine whether
appellant was indigent and entitled to proceed without advance payment of
costs and receive a free reporter=s record or whether appellant
no longer wished to continue the appeal.  On May 30, 2007, the trial
court forwarded an order to this court in which the court found that
appellant no longer wished to pursue this appeal.  The trial court
the dismissed the motion to determine indigence.

On June 4, 2007, this court
notified appellant that unless appellant filed a response within ten days
demonstrating meritorious grounds for continuing the appeal, the court
would consider dismissal of the appeal on its own motion for want of
prosecution.  See Tex.
R. App. P. 42.3(b).  Appellant filed no response.

Accordingly, we order the
appeal dismissed.

PER CURIAM

Judgment rendered and Memorandum Opinion filed
July 3, 2007.

Panel consists of Chief Justice Hedges and
Justices Hudson and Guzman.