Rules of Court of the Aransas County Court at Law (effective June 21, 2023; approved by the Presiding Judge of the Fourth Administrative Judicial Region June 22, 2023)

High confidence· verified September 23, 2026Local RulesRules of Court, Aransas County Court at Law, effective June 21, 2023, signed by Judge Richard P. Bianchi, with the Certificate of Approval of Presiding Judge Sid Harle of the Fourth Administrative Judicial Region signed June 22, 2023 — TOPICs reg. doc 1459 (registered by Aransas County 06/29/2023 as "Rules of Court Aransas County Court at Law"), pages 1–15.

Summary

The County Court at Law's local rules: judicial vacation and a published calendar; civil time standards, settings through the Court Manager, telephone docket-control conferences and the consequences of missing one, ex parte relief, six-month dismissal and suspense dockets, pre-trial exchange of motions, witness and exhibit lists seven days out, submission or hearing of preliminary matters, severance, default judgments, summary judgments by submission with courtesy copies, ADR referrals, discovery motions with a certificate of conference, settlements and interpreters; the lost-will administrative order (Exhibit A); the five-county family standing order and parent-education course (Exhibits B and C), pre-trial conferral, income withholding, the VS-165 form, sworn inventories and proposed property divisions five days before trial, and district-court cases (Exhibit D); criminal arraignment within 20 days with a waiver form, the pre-trial hearing and plea deadline four weeks later, indigent appointments, personal appearance, interpreter requests 48 hours out, and no felony matters without two-thirds concurrence of the district judges; preferential settings, continuances ten days out with a reset in the order, conflicting engagements, readiness, juries at 9:00 a.m. Monday, agreed charges five days out; bailiff duties; attorney vacations (30 days a year) and withdrawal; decorum, dress code, electronics and security; ad litem appointments and orders within seven days; no recording without approval.

Applies to

Applies to practice before the Aransas County Court at Law (Judge Richard P. Bianchi) in civil, probate, family and misdemeanor criminal cases; the Court's actions on district-court cases are governed by the 2015 policies (Exhibit D) and its family cases by the five-county standing orders. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Source of truth

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

Official source: TOPICs — Texas local rules registry (topics.txcourts.gov)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: June 21, 2023
Last verified: September 23, 2026benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-07 from the TOPICs custody file (32 pages; the 13 text-layer pages of the rules read in full, and the image-only signature page (Rule 11.12, conclusion and Judge Bianchi's signature) and Presiding Judge Harle's certificate read through the vision lane). Single current signer (Judge Richard P. Bianchi, OCA roster Richard Bianchi) — judge-joined. Transcribed as registered, including the instrument's own defects ("has ben filed", "coats and tiles", a stray item 5 in Rule 5.11, Rule 2.22's cross-reference to Rule 2.18, and the jump from Rule 10.10 to 10.12). Exhibits A and D are composed as separate rules from the same registration; Exhibits B and C are the superseded May 5, 2023 family editions (see records 1414 and 1415). [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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