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Fannin County's family-law docketing rules (Standing Order 2011-1, signed Jan. 3, 2011): family cases are docketed numerically and randomly assigned by the District Clerk between the 336th District Court and the County Court at Law; juvenile and child-protective cases go to the 336th (as modified by the 2023 juvenile-courts designation); continuing-jurisdiction requests are filed in that court; bills of review go to the rendering court; ancillary and post-judgment collection actions follow the judgment; Rule 174(a) transfer/consolidation motions are filed in the earliest case (with the SAPCR-into-divorce exception); a 180-day refile-after-dismissal transfer rule prevents court-shopping; incoming transfers from other counties are assigned under these rules regardless of the transferring order's specification; severed claims stay in the same court as new cases; ex parte applications go first to the pending court; and ad litem appointees must receive all pleadings within five days of appointment notice.
Texas > Fannin County > the 336th District Court and County Court at Law — family-law case assignment and related docketing. Signed Jan. 3, 2011 by Judges Laurine J. Blake (336th) and Charles W. Butler (CCL); § 1.02's juvenile routing is modified by the 2023 juvenile-courts designation order.
1.01 RANDOM ASSIGNMENT: divorce, annulment, void-marriage suits, SAPCRs (paternity/legitimation, conservatorship, termination and adoption, possession and access, support), agreement-incident-to-divorce actions, pre-marital and partition agreements, protective orders, UIFSA cases, and all other Family Code cases with no court of continuing jurisdiction "shall be docketed numerically in order of filing and assigned in random order by the District Clerk to the 336th Judicial District Court and Fannin County Court at Law." 1.02 JUVENILE AND DPRS CASES: delinquency, children in need of supervision, and DFPS-petitioner SAPCRs are docketed to the 336th Judicial District Court. [Modified by the Oct. 18, 2023 juvenile-courts designation (#10-2023, composed separately), which designates the County Court at Law and County Court as additional juvenile courts with assigned duties.] 1.03 CONTINUING JURISDICTION: "If there is a court of continuing jurisdiction, all requests or petitions for further action, including but not limited to modification, habeas corpus, contempt or enforcement, clarification, protective orders or other relief under the Texas Family Code, shall be filed in the court of continuing jurisdiction." 1.04 BILLS OF REVIEW: suits attacking a judgment of either court "shall be assigned to the Court in which such judgment, order or decree was rendered." 1.05 ANCILLARY PROCEEDINGS: every ancillary suit to the court to which it is ancillary; garnishment, turnover, and other post-judgment collection in the rendering court. 1.06 TRANSFER: Rule 174(a) motions for transfer, consolidation, or joint hearing are "filed in the earliest filed case" with the cause number and style of each case and TRCP 21/21a notice; if granted, other actions transfer into the earliest case — "except in situations where a SAPCR is pending and a subsequent divorce is filed involving a parent of a child of the SAPCR. Upon motion, the SAPCR action shall be transferred and consolidated into the divorce action" per the Family Code. ANTI-REFILE: an action dismissed and refiled within 180 days that draws a different court may be transferred back to the first court on a motion within 30 days of the answer, "and, upon hearing, the transfer shall be granted." 1.07 INCOMING TRANSFERS: a transfer order's designation of a particular Fannin County court "shall be disregarded and the case shall be assigned in the manner provided in Part I of these rules." 1.08 SEVERED CASES: filed as a new case in the same court with a new cause number and filing fee, copies of severed pleadings provided at filing. 1.09 EX PARTE ORDERS: presented first "to the Court in which the case is pending," and to another court only if that court is unavailable — the pending court or its coordinator determines unavailability. 1.10 AD LITEM: on appointment of a guardian or attorney ad litem, "all counsel shall provide such appointee with copies of their pleadings, orders, and reports filed with the Court, within five days (5) of notice of the appointment." ADOPTION: "adopted by the 336th Judicial District Court and the County Court at Law… this 3rd day of January 2011 but shall not anyway supersede or pre-empt any standing order promulgated by either Judge as to a particular policy of that court."
Reviewer note: Image-only signed scan read page-by-page through the vision lane (3 pages); sections transcribed with operative language verbatim. Supersedes the Sept. 24, 2010 clerk order that had routed all family filings exclusively to the 336th (doc 1384, held as a superseded record). Composed benchpath-ajr1-p7.
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.