County Court at Law No. 3 — Court Procedures (Hon. Sally… — Dallas County, TX · BenchPath

County Court at Law No. 3 — Court Procedures (Hon. Sally Montgomery)

High confidence· verified September 21, 2026Judge PreferencesDallas County Court at Law No. 3, Court Procedures (Hon. Sally Montgomery)

Summary

County Court at Law No. 3's court procedures (Hon. Sally Montgomery): scheduling orders in every case keyed to the Initial Trial Date, discovery-motion docket times, hearing and fiat mechanics with the 5-day order-objection hold, detailed summary-judgment book and default-judgment proof requirements (including DOD non-military confirmation), Rule 106 substituted-service standards with the registered-agent path, mediation-before-temporary-injunction practice, automatic mediation with random assignment and the 30-day substitution window, trial-conduct rules including the deposition impeachment predicate, and minor prove-up/ad litem practice.

Applies to

Texas > Dallas County > County Court at Law No. 3 (Hon. Sally Montgomery) — the court's posted procedures, signed by the judge; companion scheduling-order regime composed separately

Source of truth

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

Reviewer note: Two own-site instruments composed with edition layering (custody shas in the crawl ledger): the undated Court Procedures (signed 'Judge Sally Montgomery'; internal DOD reference dates a passage post-2013) plus the court's 2025 website posting (CCL-NO-3-WEBSITE-POSTING-RE-Motion-To-Appoint-Guardian-Ad-Litem.pdf, eff. Mar. 1, 2025) — where the two conflict on hearing-scheduling windows, the 2025 posting controls and is composed as the current regime; the bench matches OCA; first-person voice preserved in quotes; coordinator name/contacts generalized. [RECOMPOSED 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P7, digital-layer lane): the full text of the registered file (sha256 338c59efb08b..., 6 pages) replaces the earlier 5,380-character abstract. Method: pypdfium2 text layer reflowed page-aware, cross-checked word-by-word against PyMuPDF (0 substantive difference(s), 5 page-furniture), owner-corpus candidate sentences 100% (22/22) 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 338c59efb08b..., 6 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]