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Court Policies of the 301st Judicial District Court as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 02/16/2023, authored under then-presiding Judge Mary Brown with Associate Judge Ten Eyck's docket allocation; the court's presiding judge is now Hon. Ashley Elizabeth Wysocki per the May 2026 OCA roster and the county's live pages — the registered instrument remains the court's registration of record and is composed with that succession flagged). Docket division between the district judge and the associate judge, de novo appeal timing, custody-evaluation and child-support requirements, the dismissal docket, exhibit and interpreter procedure, mandatory mediation, residency-restriction presumption, and trial-setting prerequisites.
Texas > Dallas County > 301st District Court (family). Registered under then-Judge Mary Brown; presiding judge now Hon. Ashley Elizabeth Wysocki — the succession is flagged and the own-site policy layer is checked at the Dallas close for a successor edition.
DOCKET DIVISION: the district judge hears final trials (jury and non-jury), final custody modifications, contempts, appeals from the AJ and IV-D, motions for new trial, summary judgments and other dispositive motions, and bill of review; the Associate Judge hears all temporary hearings, TROs, final protective orders, final modifications (support and possession, not custody), writs of attachment and habeas corpus, all discovery disputes, and post-judgment matters except contempt. APPEALS FROM THE AJ: the AJ's report is enforced pending appeal unless stayed; a 15-minute conference is scheduled within 30 days to specially set the de novo hearing, and "The de novo hearing must occur within 90 days of the original hearing or it will be dismissed." CHILD CUSTODY EVALUATION: "Required in all contested custody and significant possession cases," with fees set on the parties' incomes. CHILD SUPPORT: all new orders payable to the Texas Central Disbursement Unit; "The Court will not sign any child support order (including temporary orders) that is not accompanied by a wage withholding order." CONTEMPT: no punishment-seeking contempt motion heard "without a proposed contempt order and order of commitment"; an Order to Appear is walked through for signature, then set with the Coordinator. CONTINUANCES: none granted "without obtaining a new date from the Court"; no case withdrawn from the docket without both sides' specific agreement communicated before the hearing. DISMISSALS: within one week of an original or reopening filing every case is set on the dismissal docket; a written request to retain must reach the Court before the dismissal hearing "or the case will be dismissed." EXHIBITS: submitted electronically to the Court Reporter whether the hearing is in person or remote, emailed to all counsel/pro se and the reporter "no later than 2 business days before the hearing," pre-marked, in PDF or MP3 format, with the prescribed subject-line format. INTERPRETER: provided for contested hearings on request for indigent parties — email the Coordinator "a minimum of 5 working days prior"; cancellations 24 hours ahead or the fee may be assessed. INTERVIEWING CHILDREN: only by appointment after all testimony; "Children shall not be brought to the courthouse unless specifically directed." MEDIATION: "Mediation is mandatory in all contested cases," waivable for short non-complex trials; attorneys attend FCS mediation or are phone-available unless a filed Rule 11 agreement waives the right to rescind the MSA. NOTICE OF HEARING: notices must state in-person or remote, and "The remote appearance information must be contained in the Notice of Hearing. The Court will not send out Zoom links prior to the hearing." PRE-TRIALS: a pre-trial request presumes the requester is trial-ready; mediation completed before pre-trial; contested-custody cases need a started custody evaluation with an anticipated completion date; failure to appear risks DWOP or default (Family Rule 5.03); pre-trials remote unless set in person. RESIDENCY: "There is a rebuttable presumption … that so long as the non-primary parent lives in Dallas County the residency of the children is restricted to Dallas County and contiguous counties." TRIAL SETTINGS: obtained at the pre-trial hearing; custody cases require completed evaluation and mediation; property cases require mediation plus sworn inventories and a proposed division before trial, with a consolidated spreadsheet inventory in complex cases. PRO SE / PROVE-UPS: pro se final orders submitted for approval; with an affidavit of testimony on file the Court waives the prove-up and considers the order by submission.
Reviewer note: Operative requirements quoted verbatim from the registered document (OCR w^/\^ ligature artifacts normalized); JUDGE SUCCESSION FLAGGED: authored under Hon. Mary Brown (with AJ Ten Eyck), the bench now held by Hon. Ashley Elizabeth Wysocki (OCA May 20, 2026 + live page) — rule kept court-scoped, not judge-linked, pending the successor's own edition; custody sha256 in the registry ledger (doc 1204); the court's own-site posting (301st-District-Court-Policies-02-16-2023.pdf) verified text-identical to the registered edition (similarity 1.000 — a re-post; own-site custody sha in the crawl ledger).
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