255th District Court — Policies & Procedures (Hon. Vonda… — Dallas County, TX · BenchPath

255th District Court — Policies & Procedures (Hon. Vonda Bailey; Associate Judge Jean Lee)

High confidence· verified September 22, 2026Judge Preferences255th Judicial District Court, Court Policies (Hon. Vonda Bailey) with Associate Judge Jean Lee's Policies and Procedures

Summary

The 255th District Court's family-docket policies (Hon. Vonda Bailey; AJ Jean Lee): the DJ/AJ docket split with submission-only motion classes, mandatory child-custody evaluations with the 60-day post-CCE mediation rule, wage-withholding-required child-support orders, the AJ-run dismissal and 8.02 order-entry dockets (two settings each), the pre-admitted-exhibits-only rule for final trials with 48-hour reporter delivery, Monday pre-trials raising a ready-in-45-days presumption (two conferences maximum), the fixed non-negotiable trial time-limit table, mandatory FCS mediation with sanction exposure, the Dallas-County residency-restriction presumption, self-represented walk-in Wednesdays, and AJ Lee's electronic-hearing and 2-hour ex parte notice procedures.

Applies to

Texas > Dallas County > 255th District Court (family; Hon. Vonda Bailey, with Associate Judge Jean Lee's docket and procedures composed as part of the court's regime) — read with the Dallas Family Courts Local Rules, which the document incorporates

Source of truth

Judge Vonda Bailey, 255th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT POLICIES (Please read the Dallas Family Courts Local Rules in addition to these policies.) Judge Bailey Hears: Final trials (jury & non-jury); final custody modifications; contempts; appeals from AJ and IV-D; motions for new trial; motions for continuance regarding any setting on her docket (via submission); summary judgments (via submission), bill

Official source: Dallas County Family District Courts — dallascounty.org (county site tree)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 27, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 22, 2026benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21

Reviewer note: Own-site instrument composed verbatim (custody sha in the crawl ledger); undated on face — no effective date claimed; the bench matches OCA (Vonda Bailey) and AJ Jean Lee is an officer-layer name recorded from the instrument; staff contacts and posted Zoom IDs preserved in the source and generalized/excluded here; the pronoun-usage policy is the court's own stated requirement, recorded as such. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 12c9a43b3815..., 5 page(s), digital layer that failed the machine checks; text taken from the layer and corrected word by word from the page) 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]