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Order of the district courts of Ector County on the creation of the 446th District Court (jurisdiction effective September 1, 2015): the 446th exercises jurisdiction of and gives preference to family law matters, and also hears civil or criminal matters assigned or transferred to it by the other district courts.
Texas > Seventh Administrative Judicial Region > Ector County > 70th, 161st, 244th, 358th and 446th District Courts.
ORDER The 446th Judicial District Court of Ector County, Texas has been created by enactment of the 84th Texas Legislative Session. This Court’s jurisdiction becomes effective September 1, 2015. See Section 24.590, Tex. Gov’t Code. To promote the effective management and disposition of the cases currently pending and to be subsequently filed in the Courts of Ector County, Texas, and pursuant to the statutory discretion granted to the existing District Courts of Ector County, Texas, IT IS ORDERED that: 1. The 446th Judicial District Court of Ector County, Texas shall exercise jurisdiction of and give preference to family law matters. 2. The 446th Judicial District Court of Ector County, Texas shall also exercise jurisdiction of any civil or criminal matters assigned or transferred to it by the other District Courts of Ector County, Texas. See Sections 24.003, 24.022, & 74.093, Tex. Gov’t Code. The District Courts of Ector County, Texas will formulate an appropriate strategy and method to effectuate the intent of the 446th Judicial District Court’s designation. IT IS SO ORDERED. SIGNED the 7th day of July, 2015. [signature] DENN WHALEN, 70th DISTRICT COURT [signature] JOHN W. SMITH, 161st DISTRICT COURT [signature] JAMES M. RUSH, 244th DISTRICT COURT [signature] W. STACY TROTTER, 358th DISTRICT COURT [File stamp: 2015 JUL 7 AM 9 35, FILED, DISTRICT CLERK, ECTOR COUNTY TEXAS, ________ DEPUTY; printed sideways, the clerk's name partly covered by a signature]
ORDER The 446th Judicial District Court of Ector County, Texas has been created by enactment of the 84th Texas Legislative Session. This Court’s jurisdiction becomes effective September 1, 2015. See Section 24.590, Tex. Gov’t Code. To promote the effective management and disposition of the cases currently pending and to be subsequently filed in the Courts of Ector County, Texas, and pursuant to t
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-25 (AJR-7 Seventh Region build, own-site layer) from BenchPath custody ajr7 corpus sources/documents/efd2012ba4b29e98-446th-district-court-pdf.pdf (64,943 bytes, sha256 efd2012ba4b29e988dc67d66c34054d883e33ec119efe690806435c0fbc8468f; 1 page(s)) - the document the Ector County website posts (https://www.ectorcountytx.gov/DocumentCenter/View/965/446th-District-Court-PDF), 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: Denn Whalen (70th), John W. Smith (161st), James M. Rush (244th) and W. Stacy Trotter (358th), July 7, 2015.
9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.
6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.