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The local rules of the 266th Judicial District Court of Erath County (adopted July 1, 2022): time standards, courtroom decorum, the calendar and setting process, criminal and civil pretrial practice, motion practice, trial procedure, and withdrawal and judgment submission.
Applies to all matters in the 266th Judicial District Court of Erath County.
LOCAL RULES 266TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS INTRODUCTION Pursuant to the authority granted District Courts under Rule 3a, T.R.C.P., and Art. 33.08, C.C.P., to promulgate Rules of Practice for conducting the business of District Courts, the rules, suggestions and procedures set out below will be in effect in this Court unless subsequently modified, changed or amended. All prior ru
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the TOPICs custody (25 pp, text layer, read in full). The registration print bundles the local rules with Appendix A (Standard Criminal Discovery Order), Appendix B (paternity-dissolution administrative order) and Appendix C (family standing order) — composed as their own rules on this shared receipt. Judge-joined to Cashon (personnel page). County-site print 1107 is a receipt. County-site receipt(s) in custody 2026-09-06: https://www.co.erath.tx.us/DocumentCenter/View/1107/Local-Rules---266th-District-Court-PDF (identical). [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 b12513fea8ed..., 25 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]
Division XI: information forms for data processing (Rule 11.2); required action - action taken on all calendared cases and a future date always set (Rule 11.19); and pro tem judges - an attorney named as a plaintiff in a civil or small claims case may not sit as a judge pro-tem during the case or within six months following its resolution, nor one named as a defendant in two or more such cases (Rule 11.22). Rules 11.1, 11.3 to 11.5, 11.7 to 11.18, 11.20 and 11.21 are repealed, and Rule 11.6 (voluntary arbitration; see Local Rule 10.2) was repealed and renumbered.
Duval County's indigent-defense and magistration rules under the Texas Fair Defense Act (S.B. 7): who may be booked into the county jail and on what paper; arrest-case numbering; presentment to a magistrate within 48 hours (art. 15.16); the magistrate's warnings, counsel inquiry, interpreter duty, indigence determination and appointment of counsel within 24 hours of a request; the alternative appointment plan under art. 26.04(g)-(h) with annual applications, seven attorney categories (capital, first and second degree, third degree/state jail/misdemeanor, competency, appeals, post-conviction, extradition), CLE and experience standards, random rotation within each category, written acceptance within 48 hours, first contact by the end of the next working day, replacement and suspension of counsel, fee applications within five days of completing services and the compensation attachment ($500 pleas; $175/$150 hourly; $1,400 per jury-trial day; appellate caps); bail schedules by offense class with a personal bond office (fee $20 or 3%), pre-trial supervision and revocation hearings within two working days; arraignment settings and notice; repeal of conflicting rules.
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