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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.
Division XI: information forms for data processing (Rule 11.2); required action - action taken on all calendared cases and a future date always set (Rule 11.19); and pro tem judges - an attorney named as a plaintiff in a civil or small claims case may not sit as a judge pro-tem during the case or within six months following its resolution, nor one named as a defendant in two or more such cases (Rule 11.22). Rules 11.1, 11.3 to 11.5, 11.7 to 11.18, 11.20 and 11.21 are repealed, and Rule 11.6 (voluntary arbitration; see Local Rule 10.2) was repealed and renumbered.
Duval County's indigent-defense and magistration rules under the Texas Fair Defense Act (S.B. 7): who may be booked into the county jail and on what paper; arrest-case numbering; presentment to a magistrate within 48 hours (art. 15.16); the magistrate's warnings, counsel inquiry, interpreter duty, indigence determination and appointment of counsel within 24 hours of a request; the alternative appointment plan under art. 26.04(g)-(h) with annual applications, seven attorney categories (capital, first and second degree, third degree/state jail/misdemeanor, competency, appeals, post-conviction, extradition), CLE and experience standards, random rotation within each category, written acceptance within 48 hours, first contact by the end of the next working day, replacement and suspension of counsel, fee applications within five days of completing services and the compensation attachment ($500 pleas; $175/$150 hourly; $1,400 per jury-trial day; appellate caps); bail schedules by offense class with a personal bond office (fee $20 or 3%), pre-trial supervision and revocation hearings within two working days; arraignment settings and notice; repeal of conflicting rules.