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Willacy County Civil Rules — Local Rules for the District and County Courts of Willacy and Cameron Counties (Willacy County edition; effective September 28, 2011; approved by the Supreme Court of Texas, March 2012)

The civil local rules of the 197th District Court sitting in Willacy County, extended by Part Two to the Willacy County Court's civil and probate dockets: random filing and assignment with transfer of related cases to the earlier case's court (recusal and MDL exceptions); temporary and ex parte orders presented only after filing and assignment, with written certifications about opposing counsel; limits on ex parte family-law restraining orders and a mandatory bona fide belief affidavit for protective orders; severance disfavored; docket-control conferences and pre-trial hearings; no hearing on less than three days' notice absent an emergency motion; special settings and postponement motions filed more than ten days before trial; amended pleadings within 20 days of an order or seven days before trial; Level 3 expert designation at 90/60 days before trial; an initial pre-trial conference requested by the 90th day; dilatory-plea waiver windows (30 and 7 days); certificates of conference on discovery motions; announcements of readiness; dismissal for want of prosecution; withdrawal only by Rule 10 motion; filing format (Notices of Discovery not filed); withdrawal and copying of files; proposed orders and judgments within thirty days of rendition; and Part Three's authority, repeal, citation, severability and courtroom-conduct rules for the public, counsel and officers of the court.