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Administrative order for structured settlement transfer filings under Civil Practice and Remedies Code chapter 141: the Ector County District Clerk seals all unredacted applications, pleadings, orders and exhibits on receipt; petitioners who file redacted applications simultaneously file unredacted paper copies with the District Clerk; sealed documents stay sealed until the presiding judge or the Local Administrative Judge orders otherwise.
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ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER TO SEAL UNREDACTED RECORDS FILED PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 141 OF THE TEXAS CIVIL PRACTICE & REMEDIES CODE Chapter 141 of the Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code permits the filing, either concealed or redacted, of applications, other pleadings, orders, and any exhibits with case information, including the identity of the payee. To promote the expeditious and efficient assignment of cases to the appropriate courts, the Ector County District Courts have determined that it is necessary for the Ector County District Clerk to have access to unredacted case information in all matters that are filed pursuant to Chapter 141 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code. See TEX. GOV’T CODE §§ 21.001 & 51.303. It is therefore ORDERED that the Ector County District Clerk shall seal, upon the receipt for filing, all unredacted applications, other pleadings, orders, and any exhibits filed pursuant to Chapter 141 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code. See TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE §141.006(d)(2)(C). It is further ORDERED that, pursuant to TEX. R. CIV. P. 21(f), Petitioners who file redacted applications requesting approval of the transfer of any structured settlement payment shall simultaneously file unredacted paper copies of said application(s), other pleadings, orders, and any exhibits with the Ector County District Clerk, thereby satisfying the requirements of TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE §141.006(b)(d) that such information be filed with, and unredacted notice be provided to, the Court. It is further ORDERED that sealed documents shall remain sealed until further order of the judge presiding over the case or the Local Administrative Judge. IT IS SO ORDERED. SIGNED the 15th day of February, 2018. [signature] W. STACY TROTTER JUDGE, 358TH DISTRICT COURT LOCAL ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE [File stamp: FILED FOR RECORD, Cause No.: CIVIL MINUTES, Ector County, Texas, 02/15/2018 1:49 PM, Clarissa Webster, District Clerk, by deputy]
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER TO SEAL UNREDACTED RECORDS FILED PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 141 OF THE TEXAS CIVIL PRACTICE & REMEDIES CODE Chapter 141 of the Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code permits the filing, either concealed or redacted, of applications, other pleadings, orders, and any exhibits with case information, including the identity of the payee. To promote the expeditious and efficient assignment
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-25 (AJR-7 Seventh Region build, own-site layer) from BenchPath custody ajr7 corpus sources/documents/f3fdbf47c79295b5-cprc-141-006-pdf.pdf (63,322 bytes, sha256 f3fdbf47c79295b587ccd764efdf0a6a8a6d573aaa6ccf88f5c9cf7ff51c2269; 1 page(s)) - the document the Ector County website posts (https://www.ectorcountytx.gov/DocumentCenter/View/778/CPRC-PDF?bidId=), not registered with the Office of Court Administration's TOPICs registry as of 2026-09-25: transcribed by eye from the rendered pages of the scanned file (no machine text relied on) and read a second time against the page images - for long documents word by word against an independent machine OCR of the same scan, every disagreement and every handwritten entry resolved on the image; signature, seal and file-stamp blocks bracketed. Signed: W. Stacy Trotter, Judge, 358th District Court, Local Administrative Judge (February 15, 2018).
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