The County Court at Law acts in district-court cases only as these policies allow: no criminal arraignments, pre-trials or guilty pleas without written concurrence of two-thirds of the district judges presiding in Aransas County; family matters may be filed in either court (the District Clerk informs filers), the County Court at Law judge may sign status-quo TROs in original petitions but respondents', modification, protective-order, habeas and other non-status-quo TROs go to the district judges unless that judge approves, Rule 103 service authorizations are permitted and Rule 106 substituted service needs the district judge's approval; district judges may assign family cases temporarily or permanently with the County Court at Law judge's consent (the clerk carries permanently assigned cases on a special docket); CPS removal cases are filed in the court whose judge authorized the removal; IV-D master appeals go to the County Court at Law judge on the special docket; and incoming transferred family cases are docketed in the County Court at Law.
Applies to family and criminal cases pending in the 36th, 156th and 343rd District Courts of Aransas County on which the Aransas County Court at Law judge may act; attached as Exhibit D to the County Court at Law's Rules of Court (Rules 4.16 and 5.15). Judge Flanigan has since been succeeded on the 156th District Court by Judge Boyd W. Bauer. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
RULES OF COURT ARANSAS COUNTY COURT AT LAW The following local rules governing the practice in the Aransas County Court at Law (hereinafter referred to as “the Court”) have been adopted. The County Clerk and the District Clerk of Aransas County shall publish these Rules on the Office of Court Administration’s website and make available to each attorney practicing in the Court. I. JUDICIAL ADMINI
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-07 from the TOPICs custody file (Exhibit D, three pages, all read through the vision lane against the OCR text layer). Four signers, one of them (Judge Flanigan) no longer sitting, so no judge join; the agreement is dated by its last signature (February 9, 2015). The District Clerk's file-stamp overlays the Rule 103 sentence in the scan; the words beneath it ("Texas Rules of Civil Procedure 103") are legible in the render and match the section heading. The day of the file-stamp is not legible and is not asserted. Judge-joined 2026-09-14 (benchpath-judge-join-tx-2026-09-14): the instrument names Judge Richard Bianchi, the sitting judge of this court (context-checked by eye). [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 1d87eb5b7aa4..., 32 page(s), partly scanned file; native pages taken from the text layer, scanned pages typed from the render) read against the rendered file; verbatim, source typos kept, stamps/signatures bracketed; the earlier abstract replaced by the full instrument; confidence high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21]
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