District Judge · 481st District Court
What applies in this courtroom
125 verified requirements govern practice before Judge Crystal Edmonson Levonius across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
The tabs below show the judge-and-division layer only. The Full Premium Report assembles the complete stack — every requirement, deadline table, ruling intelligence, live case-type scan, and source appendix in one cited document.
Your first 7 Judge Intelligence Reports are free with a free account — no payment card required.
No current assignment on record.
Appeals from this courtroom go to the Second Court of Appeals.
● LiveCounty-to-district assignment per Tex. Gov't Code sec. 22.201(c), live-fetched registry.
1 verified rule specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 125 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.
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.
Timing shown here is quoted from the rule text. Compute your actual date against the court's calendar and the rule itself — not legal advice.
No verified ruling summary yet. BenchPath generates ruling summaries from opinion and docket corpora (CourtListener where covered) and publishes them only after human review — fabricated judicial analytics are exactly what this platform refuses to ship.
The attributed-opinion corpus covers Florida appellate decisions today; a Texas opinion corpus is a separate build. Absence here is a coverage statement, never evidence about this judge.
Use the live case-law search below to see what exists for this judge today.
Answer three quick questions. The platform pulls Crystal Edmonson Levonius's full public case-law record from the source, newest first — your matter never narrows the pull; it directs the relevance ranking and the dual-AI analysis. Every hit comes back Bluebook-cited with the opinion's own words quoted verbatim. The scan takes the time precision takes.
Case-law search
CourtListener · free connector · liveCoverage note: CourtListener is strongest for federal courts and state appellate courts. Texas trial-court opinions are essentially absent from the source — an absence of results is a coverage gap, not evidence about this judge.
last checked September 6, 2026
Research connectors
CourtListener
● liveFree Law Project
Free. Opinions, dockets, RECAP, judge metadata. Powering the case-law search on this page.
Westlaw
○ bring your licenseThomson Reuters
Bring your firm's license — enterprise connector queries your judge and related cases inside Westlaw. Phase 2.
LexisNexis
○ bring your licenseRELX
Bring your firm's license — enterprise connector for Lexis+ research tied to your matter. Phase 2.
BenchPath never scrapes licensed databases. Westlaw and LexisNexis connect only through your firm's own credentials and entitlements when the enterprise connectors ship.
No assignments on record.
Monitor could not safely verify the registered source.
via Denton County District Courts — dentoncounty.gov (county site tree)
The 481st District Court's policies (Judge Crystal Levonius; coordinator Laurie DiPierro): in-person proceedings follow Denton ISD or Lewisville ISD weather closures while virtual ones continue; agreed orders signed by every party and attorney with distinctive signatures and a waiver-of-record appearance section need no prove-up; going forward without the other side requires filed or offered proof of notice; a full-day trial is 2½ hours per side, a half-day about 1¼ hours, a one-hour hearing 20 minutes; hearings and trials are set by e-mailing the coordinator, agreeing dates with the other side and e-filing a notice of hearing (bench trials with the court's TBC scheduling order, jury trials with a signed jury scheduling order and a pre-trial hearing by the Wednesday before); trials without a scheduling order or without attempted mediation are limited to 1.5 hours per side, and scheduling orders without a mediator's name are rejected; check in with the bailiff; ex parte requests are e-filed and the coordinator called or e-mailed or nothing happens, TROs must not duplicate the standing orders; any continuance in a case over 12 months old requires a hearing; Zoom appearances only in very limited circumstances; child interviews scheduled in advance, not on the day of trial; silent devices allowed but any sound in a jury trial may draw a $50 fine; display through USB only; cases sealed only after an evidentiary hearing following final judgment; proposed property division (editable) and a financial information statement required when asked to divide property or order support; health-insurance pleading and cash medical support where children have government coverage; TRCP 21c redaction with children's initials in all filings except the SAPCR or divorce petition; motions for new trial decided on the pleadings unless the four listed conditions call for a hearing; defaults scheduled only after the court's checklist is filed; withdrawals within 30 days of trial set for hearing.