Angelina County
Second Administrative Judicial Region (Region 2) · official region site ✓ · County seat: Lufkin
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Sixth Amended (2026) Local Rules of Angelina County for the Timely and Fair Appointment of Counsel for Indigent Defendants
Angelina County's Sixth Amended (2026) indigent-defense local rules, adopted by the Board of Judges (159th and 217th District Courts, County Courts at Law Nos. 1 and 2) on Sept. 11, 2026 and filed Sept. 16, 2026: five public appointment lists (trial/appellate Categories A–C, capital, juvenile) with sworn applications; magistration within 48 hours and transmission of counsel requests within 24 hours; out-of-county warrant procedures; indigence presumptions (public assistance, 125% of poverty guidelines, incarceration, prior determinations) and appointment within three working days by rotation with good-cause deviations; capital-case appointments through the Regional Public Defender; attorney qualifications (six hours of criminal CLE or board certification, category experience) and annual TIDC reporting; duties of appointed counsel; investigative and expert expenses with and without prior approval; removal from the lists; compensation by itemized fee voucher with appeal to the Second Administrative Judicial Region; and the attached exhibits (application, attorney request form, financial questionnaire, affidavit of indigency, order to appear, application/order for appointment, magistrate warning form, and the district-court fee schedule — Plan A $100/$75 per hour or Plan B fixed fees — and the misdemeanor schedule of $100–$125 per hour).
159th and 217th District Courts — Standing Order on Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Sept. 3, 2026)
Joint standing order of the 159th and 217th District Courts of Angelina County (Presiding Judges Todd L. Kassaw and Kristi C. Skillern, signed Sept. 3, 2026, filed Sept. 4, 2026): any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses Generative AI in work product, research, or drafting must include a prescribed sworn verification, in bold, in the pleading; a pleading that lacks it "will not be considered by the Court." The order prohibits AI-fabricated or misstated authority, entering sensitive confidential information into Generative AI, AI-created or AI-altered evidence, AI voice-recognition interpreters, experts relying on generative AI, and recording proceedings for AI analysis; violations are sanctionable after a show-cause hearing.
Angelina County Standing Order Regarding Alternative Service
The Angelina County standing order governing substitute or alternative service of process — the showing a plaintiff must make (due diligence) and the manner in which alternative service may be authorized.
Local Rules of Procedure and Rules of Decorum for the Justice Courts of Angelina County
The Angelina County justice courts’ local rules of procedure and decorum (effective January 1, 2012; amended February 10, 2023): general administration, jury selection, justice civil cases (filing, e-filing, settings, jury demand, copies, continuances), and courtroom decorum.
Local Rules of the District Courts of Angelina County
The local rules of the Angelina County district courts (159th and 217th Judicial Districts) governing civil, criminal and family case management — assignment, settings, docket control, and trial procedure — as approved for the county’s district courts.
Angelina County Juvenile Defense Plan
The Angelina County plan for the appointment and delivery of defense counsel in juvenile cases — the standards, eligibility and procedures for appointing attorneys to represent children in juvenile-justice proceedings.
Angelina County Joint and Mutual Standing Order on Children, Property and Conduct of Parties
The Angelina County family standing order (current 2024 edition; the courts having domestic-relations and family-law jurisdiction), self-executing in every suit for dissolution of marriage and every SAPCR. It prohibits harassing/threatening communication, bodily injury, and destruction, concealment or transfer of property, and protects the children while the suit is pending; joint and mutual unless otherwise noted.
Angelina County CPS Standing Discovery Order
The Angelina County standing discovery order for Child Protective Services (Department of Family and Protective Services) cases, governing the exchange and disclosure of discoverable information in CPS suits before the courts.
Angelina County JP Precinct One Standing Order AD-2-22 (Public Access to Records)
Justice Court, Precinct One standing order AD-2-22 providing for public access to the records of the Justice Courts consistent with the constitutional mandates (the Texas Public Information Act does not apply to the judiciary), establishing how records may be requested and obtained.
Angelina County Standing Order Regarding Electronic Recording
The Angelina County standing order adopting electronic recording as the method of making the record of court proceedings, implementing the court-recorder rules for civil, criminal and other proceedings.
Angelina County Order Requiring Completion of Children’s Interest Seminar
A standing order (current 2024 edition; signed by all four family-law judges) requiring all parties in litigation affecting the parent-child relationship to attend and complete the Children’s Interest Seminar ("For Kid’s Sake") within 60 days of the filing date; failure may result in contempt, striking of pleadings or Rule 215 sanctions.
Angelina County CPS Standing Smoking Order
The Angelina County standing order restricting smoking around children who are the subject of Child Protective Services cases, protecting the health of children while the suit is pending.
Angelina County JP Precinct One Standing Order CR-1-19 (Public Intoxication or Tobacco Offense)
Justice Court, Precinct One standing order CR-1-19: officers charging a defendant with the Class C offense of public intoxication or a tobacco offense shall submit a probable-cause affidavit with the citation.
Angelina County Court Recorder Local Rules
The rules governing the procedure for making a record of court proceedings by electronic recording in Angelina County, adopted under the Supreme Court of Texas’ approval (Misc. Docket No. 20-9030) — the duties of court recorders, the log, exhibit handling, storage and preparation of the appellate record.
Angelina County JP Precinct One Standing Order CR-3-19 (Class C Assault)
Justice Court, Precinct One standing order CR-3-19: officers charging a defendant with Class C assault (including assault family violence) shall submit a probable-cause affidavit with the citation.
Angelina County JP Precinct One Standing Order CR-2-19 (Possession of Drug Paraphernalia)
Justice Court, Precinct One standing order CR-2-19: officers charging a defendant with the Class C offense of possession of drug paraphernalia shall submit a probable-cause affidavit with the citation.
Angelina County JP Precinct One Standing Order CV-3-14 (Substitute or Alternative Service)
Justice Court, Precinct One standing order CV-3-14 governing substitute or alternative service under TRCP 501.2(e)(1): such service will not be authorized until the plaintiff shows due diligence in attempting personal service.
Angelina County JP Precinct One Standing Order AD-1-14 (Probable Cause Affidavits and Arrest Warrants)
Justice Court, Precinct One standing order AD-1-14 governing the filing of probable-cause affidavits and the issuance of arrest warrants — the information officers must enter (name, penal code section, offense) for the court to issue a warrant.
Second Administrative Judicial Region of Texas — Regional Rules of Administration
The Regional Rules of Administration governing the district and statutory county courts of the Second Administrative Judicial Region of Texas (adopted 1995, effective January 3, 1996; amended 2007 and 2016). Eleven rules: case-disposition time standards (felonies 12 months, misdemeanors 6, civil jury 18 / non-jury 12, contested family 6 / uncontested 3, and the juvenile deadlines); the duty to supply docket information to the Regional Presiding Judge; the requirement that each county adopt conforming local rules for civil, family/juvenile and criminal dispositions and a jury plan; judicial-absence plans; the rule-with-respect-to-rules (numbering and Supreme-Court/Presiding-Judge approval for effectiveness); local court administration including recusal-referral procedure to the Presiding Judge (Rule 18a) and recording/broadcasting standards; conflicting engagements of attorneys; and the four-week attorney-vacation rule.
Second Administrative Judicial Region — Rules for the Appeal of an Approval of or Failure to Act on a Request for Payment of Appointed Attorney’s Fees
The Second Administrative Judicial Region’s rules (Code of Criminal Procedure art. 26.05(c)) for appointed counsel to appeal a trial court’s or Managed Assigned Counsel Director’s disapproval of, or failure to act on, a request for payment of appointed-attorney fees. Counsel files an original motion with the clerk and forwards copies to the Regional Presiding Judge and the payment authority within 20 days of a disapproval order (or within 80 days if the authority fails to act), setting out the enumerated case and billing details; the Presiding Judge abates ruling at least 10 days for the payment authority to reconsider, then rules under art. 26.05(c) on the form order in Appendix B, with the Judge’s/Director’s findings on the Appendix A forms.
N.D. Tex. LR 83.9 — Attorneys Not Admitted to Practice Before this Court
N.D. Tex. LR 83.9 — Attorneys Not Admitted to Practice Before this Court: the court's own rule, verbatim from LOCAL CIVIL RULES OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS (Effective September 1, 2026), official PDF, sha-custodied. Court-level requirement: applies in every case before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas alongside the federal rules and any judge-specific procedures.
N.D. Tex. LR 83.8 — Loss of Membership and Discipline of Attorneys
N.D. Tex. LR 83.8 — Loss of Membership and Discipline of Attorneys: the court's own rule, verbatim from LOCAL CIVIL RULES OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS (Effective September 1, 2026), official PDF, sha-custodied. Court-level requirement: applies in every case before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas alongside the federal rules and any judge-specific procedures.
N.D. Tex. LR 83.7 — Admission of Attorneys
N.D. Tex. LR 83.7 — Admission of Attorneys: the court's own rule, verbatim from LOCAL CIVIL RULES OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS (Effective September 1, 2026), official PDF, sha-custodied. Court-level requirement: applies in every case before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas alongside the federal rules and any judge-specific procedures.
N.D. Tex. LR 83.6 — Applications to Proceed In Forma Pauperis
N.D. Tex. LR 83.6 — Applications to Proceed In Forma Pauperis: the court's own rule, verbatim from LOCAL CIVIL RULES OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS (Effective September 1, 2026), official PDF, sha-custodied. Court-level requirement: applies in every case before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas alongside the federal rules and any judge-specific procedures.
N.D. Tex. LR 83.4.1 — Compliance with Standards of Litigation Conduct
N.D. Tex. LR 83.4.1 — Compliance with Standards of Litigation Conduct: the court's own rule, verbatim from LOCAL CIVIL RULES OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS (Effective September 1, 2026), official PDF, sha-custodied. Court-level requirement: applies in every case before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas alongside the federal rules and any judge-specific procedures.