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The county courts at law's procedures book (adopted December 15, 2025, REV 12/08/25; registered December 30, 2025; also posted own-site as "Procedures for All NonCriminal Matters"): filing ceiling, alternating assignment, 45-day trial-setting notice, Monday docket call, probate/guardianship attorney-representation requirement, vacation-designation regime, and adoption of the family district courts' rules for family matters heard in the CCLs.
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Adopted 12/15/2025 and signed by Judges Courtney T. Gilbert (CCL1), Thomas L. Pfeiffer (CCL2), Jeremy Eugene Warren (CCL3) and Lori L. Rickert (CCL4) — the CCL bench cross-proof. Verbatim highlights from the vision-read instrument: the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure govern where these procedures are silent; civil filings are accepted up to the statutory jurisdictional ceiling (including the $325,000 amount-in-controversy limit stated); cases are assigned among the four courts on an alternating basis; trial settings require forty-five (45) days' notice, by written signed request; a ten (10) day conflict-notice presumption applies to competing settings; trial sessions are posted; the Monday docket call requires a ready announcement, and unannounced cases fall to the dismissal docket; ancillary and probate settings are made through the coordinator of the assigned court; an agreed pass or continuance requires the agreement of opposing counsel AND the approval of the judge; in probate and guardianship matters, applicants who are not licensed attorneys must be represented by counsel (citing Steele v. McDonald), and the Guardianship Investigator is the first contact for guardianship intake; vacation designations follow the stated regime (four weeks per year; summer designations by May 15; non-summer designations on 90 days' notice, maximum two consecutive weeks); juvenile matters follow the code's assignment; family district court matters heard in the CCLs apply "the rules of the 300th and 461st District Courts"; emergencies follow the district courts' emergency rule; and courtroom conduct provisions (including the photography/recording prohibition) apply. Registered instrument: https://topics.txcourts.gov/LocalRulesPublic/PreviewAttachment/2745 (own-site posting text-identical, cross-proof).
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)).