Shaun Carpenter
District Judge · 220th District Court
High confidence· verified September 7, 2026
District Judge · 220th District Court
What applies in this courtroom
19 verified requirements may apply in this courtroom, by layer: 2 published by Judge Shaun Carpenter · 3 county-wide · 3 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 — 220th District Court, Comanche County
District Judge — 220th District Court, Hamilton County
Appeals from this courtroom go to the Tenth Court of Appeals.
● LiveThat court's published bench (3): Lee Harris, Matt Johnson, Steven Lee Smith
County-to-district assignment per Tex. Gov't Code sec. 22.201(k), live-fetched registry.
2 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.
A standing order of the 220th Judicial District Court (Bosque, Comanche and Hamilton Counties) restricting public access to the pleadings, orders and documents filed in suits brought by the Department of Family and Protective Services under Chapters 261, 262 and 264 of the Texas Family Code.
Standing orders of the 220th District Court sitting in Comanche County, entered in every family law case until final hearing and attached to every newly filed family matter: the 36 injunctions in dissolution proceedings (conduct, property, funds, records, insurance, utilities, residence, vehicles, electronic data and accounts, children, alcohol and drugs within 12 hours of possession, overnight unrelated adults), the four authorized expenditures, the parallel injunctions in suits affecting the parent-child relationship, and the definition of personal property.
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.
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.
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The attributed-opinion corpus covers Florida's and California's appellate decisions today; a Texas opinion corpus is a separate build. Absence here is a coverage statement, never evidence about this judge.
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last checked October 24, 2026
last checked October 14, 2026
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District Judge — 220th District Court, Comanche Countycurrent
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assignment source →District Judge — 220th District Court, Hamilton Countycurrent
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