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All motions must be written and filed and served under the CCL Local Rules and the Code of Criminal Procedure; County Court at Law No. 7 and Impact Court No. 7 each hold a Call Docket the Thursday before Monday trials, with Impact Court trials Monday through Wednesday; neither court gives an automatic "not ready" continuance — a party not ready must file a Chapter 29 motion for continuance and present it for ruling, and even an agreed continuance requires both parties to approach the bench for a good-cause determination.
Applies to attorneys with misdemeanor family violence cases in County Court at Law No. 7 of Bexar County (Judge Melanie M. Lira) and its Impact Court; supersedes the January 11, 2023 order 2023 SO 01 (TOPICs doc 1045), which covered CCL 7 alone. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
2023 SO 08 — STANDING ORDER. STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF BEXAR — IN THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 7, BEXAR COUNTY, TEXAS. STANDING ORDER ON TRIAL PROCEDURES IN COUNTY COURT AT LAW NUMBER 7 AND IMPACT COURT NUMBER 7 This STANDING ORDER of Judge Melanie M. Lira, Presiding Judge of County Court at Law No. 7, hearing misdemeanor family violence cases, is intended to direct attorneys with cases in County C
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-08 from the TOPICs custody file (one image-only page read through the vision lane). Single current signer (Judge Melanie Lira, CCL 7 on the OCA roster), so judge-joined. Edition precedence: replaces 2023 SO 01 (doc 1045, recorded).
A standing order of the 97th Judicial District Court sealing the files in cases in which Child Protective Services or the Department of Family and Protective Services appears as petitioner, in the counties comprising the 97th Judicial District.
Dallas County Standing Order Regarding Children, Pets, Property and Conduct of the Parties (Family District Courts General Orders, current edition F2026/05, revised Jan. 31, 2026 — a re-adoption of the same operative text by the current bench: Hon. Kim Brown (254th), Vonda Bailey (255th), Sandre Streete (256th), Ashley Wysocki (301st), Sandra Jackson (302nd), LaDeitra Adkins (303rd), and Andrea D. Plumlee (330th)), as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/11/2023). The order "applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in Dallas County" automatically, without request: child-disruption prohibitions, pet protection, party-conduct restraints, divorce-case property/records/insurance freezes with specific authorizations, mandatory petition attachment, and its TRO-to-temporary-injunction lifecycle.
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