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The Rules of Administration of the Eighth Administrative Judicial Region (the 18-county Fort Worth region), promulgated under Article 200a-1, V.T.C.S. and the Supreme Court Rules of Judicial Administration (adopted February 4, 1987): eleven rules governing case-disposition time standards, the information administrative judges supply, the disposition of civil, family/juvenile and felony/misdemeanor cases, jury selection and control, judges' and attorneys' vacations and absences, local courts administration, and attorneys with conflicting engagements.
Applies region-wide across the eighteen counties of the Eighth Administrative Judicial Region (Fort Worth region). Administrative case-management standards; procedural information only, not legal advice.
Eighth Administrative Judicial Region Rules of Administration. Authority: promulgated pursuant to Article 200a-1, V.T.C.S., and the Supreme Court Rules of Judicial Administration, adopted February 4, 1987. The instrument comprises eleven rules: Rule 1, Time Standards for the Disposition of Cases — district and statutory county court judges of the county in which cases are filed should, as far as reasonably possible, bring cases to trial or final disposition within: criminal cases as provided by law (preference to defendants in local custody); civil jury cases within 18 months and civil nonjury cases within 12 months from the appearance date; contested family law cases within 6 months and uncontested within 3 months from the appearance date (or from expiration of any Family Code waiting period, whichever is later); juvenile cases as provided by Title 3 of the Texas Family Code; with recognition that especially complex cases or special circumstances may not permit adherence. Rule 2, the information administrative judges of each county supply; Rule 3, disposition of civil cases; Rule 4, disposition of family law and juvenile cases; Rule 5, disposition of felony and misdemeanor cases; Rule 6, selection and control of juries; Rule 7, judges' vacations, absences, etc.; Rule 8, rules; Rule 9, local courts administration; Rule 10, attorneys having conflicting engagements; and Rule 11, attorneys' vacations.
Eighth Administrative Judicial Region Rules of Administration. Authority: promulgated pursuant to Article 200a-1, V.T.C.S., and the Supreme Court Rules of Judicial Administration, adopted February 4, 1987. Eleven rules governing case-disposition time standards, information supplied by administrative judges, civil/family/juvenile/criminal disposition, juries, vacations, local courts administration, and conflicting engagements.
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 instrument-true from the region page print (media/1443598, sha 58f7fa19…, image-only, read in full via the vision lane); TOPICs doc 325 is the dual receipt (an OCR-degraded second print of the same instrument). Supersedes the recon-era twin tx-topics-325-8th-ajr-local-rules, now archived with a successor pointer. Region-level (court-less, county-less) rule for the 8th Administrative Judicial Region.
Establishes a Traffic Violations Bureau within the Clerk of the County Court under Fla. R. Traf. Ct. 6.100(a) (Burnstein, C.J., Nov. 1, 1988).
Approves the National Highway Safety Council Defensive Driving course as a school to which traffic courts may require attendance (Fla. R. Traf. Ct. 6.110(a)).
Designates the D.W.I. Counterattack School (Broward County Commission on Alcoholism) as an approved school for court-ordered attendance (Fla. R. Traf. Ct. 6.110(a)).