Derbha H. Jones

467th District Court (Denton County) — Exhibit Rules (confer 15 minutes before; pre-numbered exhibits, numbers only, no duplicates across motions; binder with tabs; audio/video on a flash drive by the end of the hearing in appellate-compliant formats; PDFs of all exhibits preferred)

The 467th District Court's exhibit rules (official court reporter Jennifer Ryan, Judge Derbha Jones): parties are ordered to confer at least 15 minutes before a hearing or trial on stipulations; exhibits pre-marked on the front of the first page, numbered only with no letter combinations, no duplicate numbers across motions in the same hearing; in family cases marking as Mother, Father, Husband, Wife is preferred; more than a few exhibits in a tabbed binder; an extra copy of requested-relief exhibits for the judge; audio and video exhibits to the court reporter on a labeled flash drive by the end of the hearing, played from the party's own laptop after familiarizing with the equipment, no contemporaneous verbatim record absent good cause, video-deposition recordings entered as exhibits, playable in Windows Media Player or VLC and compliant with appellate size and format rules (text-searchable PDFs of 100 MB or less; recordings not over 2 GB in the listed formats); PDF copies of all exhibits on a flash drive and witness and exhibit lists before the hearing are preferred.