416th District Court — Court Policies (Hon. Andrea Thompson, as… — Collin County, TX · BenchPath

416th District Court — Court Policies (Hon. Andrea Thompson, as of June 3, 2025)

High confidence· verified September 21, 2026Judge Preferences416th District Court, Court Policies (as of June 3, 2025)

Summary

The 416th District Court's policies (Hon. Andrea Thompson, June 3, 2025): proof-of-notice and advance-security requirements, the fixed civil time limits (temporary orders 20 minutes per side, full-day bench trial 2.5 hours, jury trial 6 hours; bench trials without a scheduling order capped at 1 hour), the form scheduling order, the 9:30 a.m.-Thursday formal jury pre-trial, mandatory mediation with the 1-hour-bench/3-hour-jury non-mediation penalty, e-filed ex parte relief with the no-overlap-with-standing-orders rule, the over-one-year continuance rule, the courtroom cell-phone policy with the $50 jury-trial sound fine, the property-division Excel preference and financial-information-statement requirements, and §153.009 child-interview practice.

Applies to

Texas > Collin County > 416th District Court (Hon. Andrea Thompson) — a family-docket court; refer also to the Collin County Local Rules and Standing Orders for general policies

Source of truth

Official source: Collin County District Courts — collincountytx.gov (county site tree)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 27, 2026
Effective date: June 3, 2025
Last verified: September 21, 2026benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p11-2026-09-21

Reviewer note: Own-site instrument composed verbatim (text layer; custody sha in the crawl ledger); own-site-only; the bench (Andrea Stroh Thompson) matches the OCA roster; coordinator email preserved in the source; companion 416th trial-exhibit instructions are a form. [RECOMPOSED 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P7, digital-layer lane): the full text of the registered file (sha256 36386771586d..., 5 pages) replaces the earlier 2,192-character abstract. Method: pypdfium2 text layer reflowed page-aware, cross-checked word-by-word against PyMuPDF (5 substantive difference(s), 1 page-furniture), owner-corpus candidate sentences 100% (18/18) matched, 0 running header/footer line(s) removed, no U+FFFD/U+FFFE/form-feed debris. NOT yet checked page by page against the render, so confidence is medium with an open re-verification task; flip to high when a reviewer has read every page against the PDF. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p7-2026-09-21] [BY-EYE CHECK 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P11): every page of the registered file (sha256 36386771586d..., 5 page(s)) read against the rendered PDF; file-stamp, caption and signature-block defects of the text layer corrected from the render; confidence lifted to high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p11-2026-09-21]