302nd District Court — Court Policies and Procedures (Hon.… — Dallas County, TX · BenchPath

302nd District Court — Court Policies and Procedures (Hon. Sandra L. Jackson, Mar. 11, 2025)

High confidence· verified September 21, 2026Judge Preferences302nd Judicial District Court, Court Policies and Procedures (Hon. Sandra L. Jackson) (Mar. 11, 2025)

Summary

The 302nd District Court's family-docket policies (Hon. Sandra L. Jackson; AJ Tamika Jones Abendroth; Mar. 11, 2025): the DJ/AJ docket split, the annual July 1–Aug. 15 appointment-application window with the Sept. 1 list, wage-withholding-required child-support orders, the required pre-hearing contempt and commitment orders, the 30-day final-order deadline on pain of dismissal, mandatory mediation with written waiver motions, AJ-set pre-trials and special sets with Financial Information Statements, DJ prove-up windows, the ten-day-letter order-signing rule, and the 30-day withdrawal cutoff before final trial.

Applies to

Texas > Dallas County > 302nd District Court (family; Hon. Sandra L. Jackson, with Associate Judge Tamika Jones Abendroth's docket composed as part of the court's regime) — read with the Dallas Family Courts Local Rules, which the document incorporates; companion scheduling instruments (docket-control and bench-trial discovery-control orders, pretrial order) composed separately

Source of truth

Official source: Dallas County Family District Courts — dallascounty.org (county site tree)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 27, 2026
Effective date: March 11, 2025
Last verified: September 21, 2026benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p11-2026-09-21

Reviewer note: Own-site instrument composed verbatim (custody sha in the crawl ledger); the bench matches OCA (Sandra Lee Jackson) and AJ Tamika Jones Abendroth is an officer-layer name recorded from the instrument; staff roster and contacts preserved in the source, generalized here. [RECOMPOSED 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P7, digital-layer lane): the full text of the registered file (sha256 524323d0b9e8..., 4 pages) replaces the earlier 4,558-character abstract. Method: pypdfium2 text layer reflowed page-aware, cross-checked word-by-word against PyMuPDF (0 substantive difference(s), 7 page-furniture), owner-corpus candidate sentences 95% (20/21) 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 524323d0b9e8..., 4 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]