District Judge · 365th District Court
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19 verified requirements may apply in this courtroom, by layer: 6 published by Judge Amado Jose Abascal III · 0 county-wide · 2 region-wide · 11 statewide — with 9 rule deadlines across those layers. Only the judge's own rules are specific to this courtroom; the other layers apply by court, county and state scope, and a court- or case-specific order can displace them.
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District Judge — 365th District Court, Dimmit County
District Judge — 365th District Court, Zavala County
Appeals from this courtroom go to the Fourth Court of Appeals.
● LiveThat court's published bench (7): Adrian A. Spears, II, H. Todd McCray, Irene Rios, Lori I. Valenzuela, Lori Massey Brissette, Rebeca Martinez, Velia J. Meza
County-to-district assignment per Tex. Gov't Code sec. 22.201(e), live-fetched registry.
6 verified rules specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 19 total requirements apply in this courtroom across all layers — the Full Premium Report assembles the complete stack.
No judge-level deadline on record runs shorter than a statewide deadline with the same trigger. The sentinel compares quoted timing across every published rule scoped to this judge on each visit — a clean result today is re-earned tomorrow.
The 365th District Court's own-motion standing order for every divorce and SAPCR filed in the court in Dimmit County: while a divorce is pending each party is barred from abusive or threatening communications, dissipating, concealing, encumbering or falsifying records about property, unauthorized sales, debts, withdrawals, retirement or life-insurance borrowing, entering safe deposit boxes, changing beneficiaries or insurance, diverting mail, forging endorsements, cancelling credit cards, changing tax withholding, destroying financial or electronic records, deleting social-media content, using the other party's passwords, cutting utilities, excluding the other from a residence or taking the other's vehicle (with authorizations to occupy the residence, pay living expenses and run a business); in a SAPCR neither party may remove a child from Texas, change schools or residence, hide the child or disturb the child's peace; within 30 days of appearance each parent produces net-resources information, two years of tax returns, a financial statement, pay stubs and the children's health and dental insurance details; the order is attached to every petition, operates as a temporary order until final judgment, yields to protective orders, encourages mediation and may be enforced or supplemented on the court's own motion.
The 365th District Court's own-motion standing order for every divorce and SAPCR filed in the court: while a divorce is pending each party is barred from abusive or threatening communications, dissipating, concealing, encumbering or falsifying records about property, unauthorized sales, debts, withdrawals, retirement or life-insurance borrowing, entering safe deposit boxes, changing beneficiaries or insurance, diverting mail, forging endorsements, cancelling credit cards, changing tax withholding, destroying financial or electronic records, deleting social-media content, using the other party's passwords, cutting utilities, excluding the other from a residence or taking the other's vehicle (with authorizations to occupy the residence, pay living expenses and run a business); in a SAPCR neither party may remove a child from Texas, change schools or residence, hide the child or disturb the child's peace; within 30 days of appearance each parent produces net-resources information, two years of tax returns, a financial statement, pay stubs and the children's health and dental insurance details; the order is attached to every petition, operates as a temporary order until final judgment, yields to protective orders, encourages mediation and may be enforced or supplemented on the court's own motion.
The 365th District Court's own-motion standing order for every divorce and SAPCR filed in the court in Zavala County: while a divorce is pending each party is barred from abusive or threatening communications, dissipating, concealing, encumbering or falsifying records about property, unauthorized sales, debts, withdrawals, retirement or life-insurance borrowing, entering safe deposit boxes, changing beneficiaries or insurance, diverting mail, forging endorsements, cancelling credit cards, changing tax withholding, destroying financial or electronic records, deleting social-media content, using the other party's passwords, cutting utilities, excluding the other from a residence or taking the other's vehicle (with authorizations to occupy the residence, pay living expenses and run a business); in a SAPCR neither party may remove a child from Texas, change schools or residence, hide the child or disturb the child's peace; within 30 days of appearance each parent produces net-resources information, two years of tax returns, a financial statement, pay stubs and the children's health and dental insurance details; the order is attached to every petition, operates as a temporary order until final judgment, yields to protective orders, encourages mediation and may be enforced or supplemented on the court's own motion.
No motion other than a motion for summary judgment, a plea to the jurisdiction or another dispositive motion may be filed or accepted by the clerk in the 365th District Court unless it carries one of three prescribed certificates of conference: counsel conferred substantively without resolving the matters; counsel made at least three attempts over two business days after delivering the proposed motion and got no response; or an emergency exists after at least one attempt (with the dates, methods and harm stated). The Dimmit posting attaches the three one-page certificate forms.
No motion other than a motion for summary judgment, a plea to the jurisdiction or another dispositive motion may be filed or accepted by the clerk in the 365th District Court unless it carries one of three prescribed certificates of conference: counsel conferred substantively without resolving the matters; counsel made at least three attempts over two business days after delivering the proposed motion and got no response; or an emergency exists after at least one attempt (with the dates, methods and harm stated).
No motion other than a motion for summary judgment, a plea to the jurisdiction or another dispositive motion may be filed or accepted by the clerk in the 365th District Court unless it carries one of three prescribed certificates of conference: counsel conferred substantively without resolving the matters; counsel made at least three attempts over two business days after delivering the proposed motion and got no response; or an emergency exists after at least one attempt (with the dates, methods and harm stated).
No judge-scoped deadlines on this tab. Deadlines are extracted only when the source rule text states them — we never infer or calculate dates the rule does not explicitly contain. 9 rule deadlines apply in this courtroom across all layers — assembled with citations in the Full Premium Report.
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last checked October 7, 2026
last checked October 7, 2026
last checked October 7, 2026
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District Judge — 365th District Court, Dimmit Countycurrent
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