County Court at Law No. 5 — Policies & Procedures (Hon. Nicole… — Dallas County, TX · BenchPath

County Court at Law No. 5 — Policies & Procedures (Hon. Nicole R. Taylor, approved Jan. 5, 2026)

High confidence· verified September 23, 2026Judge PreferencesDallas County Civil Court at Law No. 5, Policies & Procedures (approved Jan. 5, 2026)

Summary

County Court at Law No. 5's policies and procedures (approved Jan. 5, 2026): Zoom oral-hearing dockets with registration-language notice requirements and 3-day/21-day notice rules, the oral-hearing and off-docket motion taxonomies (including HB16-era submission-default summary judgments on the Friday 8 a.m. docket), detailed default-judgment and substituted-service proof requirements with the 30-day SCRA search window, Thursday non-jury trials and scheduling-order-driven jury settings, mandatory Monday pre-trial conferences with the Wednesday e-file deadline, the 24-juror panel default, the automatic first 30-day uncontested continuance, vacation-letter practice, the 60-day final-disposition flow, and the 90-day service/30-day-ASO dismissal triggers.

Applies to

Texas > Dallas County > County Court at Law No. 5 (Hon. Nicole R. Taylor) — the court's approved procedures; eviction overflow routing per the county's Overflow Court arrangement

Source of truth

Approved 1.5.2026 Dallas County Civil Court at Law No. Five (5) Policies & Procedures Contacting the Court For all matters relating to trial dates, trial settings, Dismissal Docket, Final Disposition Docket and special requests for Trials ONLY, please contact the Court Coordinator: Raychel Smith (214) 653-6503 CCL5Coordinator@dallascounty.org For all matters relating to Scheduling Hearings on Moti

Official source: Dallas County Courts at Law — dallascounty.org (county site tree)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 27, 2026
Effective date: January 5, 2026
Last verified: September 23, 2026benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21

Reviewer note: Own-site instrument composed verbatim (custody sha in the crawl ledger); staff names/contacts preserved in the source and generalized here; the HB16 summary-judgment submission-default is the document's own characterization; Judge Taylor named on the contact page, matching the OCA bench. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 53f0f36a9de8..., 7 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]