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Local Rules of Court, Fort Bend County Courts at Law (approved and adopted January 1, 2018) — Fort Bend County. The operative requirements are quoted verbatim from the governing document (registered/posted 01/01/2023); the document in custody is the controlling text.
Texas > Fort Bend County > County Courts at Law Nos. 1-6
These Rules shall not be construed as extending the jurisdiction of these courts, nor shall they be construed to overrule or conflict with the Texas Government Code, Texas Code of Civil Procedure, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Texas Penal Code, Texas Family Code, Texas Probate Code, Texas Rules of Criminal Evidence, or Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure, or the Rules of Appellate Procedure promulgated by the First and Fourteenth Courts of Appeals. … Holidays (A) Each County Court at Law shall prepare and post outside of its courtroom a semi-annual calendar generally setting out the daily and weekly dockets of the court. … (B) Each County Court at Law shall prepare and post daily, outside of its courtroom, a specific docket or dockets of the matters being considered by the court at a particular docket call. … RULE 1.13 Emergency and Special Sessions (A) Except in emergencies when the Clerk's Office is not open for business, no application for immediate or temporary relief shall be presented to a Judge until it has been filed and assigned to a Court as provided in these Rules. … (B) If the Judge of the Court to which such case is assigned is absent or is occupied with other matters, and the other County Court at Law is absent, such application may be assigned by the Local Administrative Judge, to any Judge who may sit for the Judge of the court in which that case is pending and shall make all orders, writs and process returnable to that Court. … (C) Hearings on applications for temporary injunctions, temporary receiverships, and the like, shall be set in the Court to which the case has been assigned by consulting with that Court. … (D) All applications for ex parte relief shall state whether or not, within the Back to Local Rules of the Court knowledge of applicant and his attorney, the opposing party is represented by counsel and, if so, the name of such counsel. … (E) The party requesting such temporary relief shall be present in Court at the time such relief is requested, unless the Court waives this requirement for good cause shown. … Emergency Orders (A) Whenever immediate action of a Judge is required in an emergency when the Clerk's office is not open for business, the case shall, nevertheless, at the earliest practicable time be docketed and assigned to a Court as provided by these Rules, and all writs and process shall be returnable to that Court. … The County Clerk shall be responsible, individually to each and all of the County Courts at Law Judges and Local Administrative Judge of the County for the accurate collection and reporting of such information as may be prescribed in writing by the Regional Administrative Judge or the Supreme Court for the County Courts at Law of Fort Bend County, Texas. … Each Judge will have direct access to any such information and/or data collected at all reasonable times, Monday through Friday, during working hours, and the Clerk shall produce such and deliver same to any Judge upon request. … (C) Except as provided hereafter in this Rule, all cases shall be filed with the Clerk of the County Courts at Law in random order and shall be assigned, insofar as practicable, in a fair and equitable manner among the Courts with uneven numbers being assigned to County Court at Law No. … 2 Garnishment Suits (D) Every garnishment suit shall be assigned to the court in which the principal suit is or was pending, and if the principal suit is transferred to another court, the garnishment shall be transferred likewise. … Branch Exchange (A) After assignment to a particular court, every case, both jury and non-jury, shall remain pending in such court until final disposition, or transfer. … (D) The following types of cases shall be subject to transfer under this Rule, but this listing is not exclusive and is given by way of example only: … (E) Whenever a case is transferred to this County by a court of another county, it shall be assigned in the manner specified by these Rules. … (B) Requests for hearing shall be made to the Court in which the matter is pending, in accordance with these Rules, and the attorneys making such request shall serve all other parties with notice of the date and hour set for hearing and of the particular matter which will be considered at such time. … RULE 3.15 Request for Settings -- Jury (A) Demand for a trial by jury shall not be occasion for advancement or substantial delay of the trial or of any other proceeding in the case, nor for transfer of the case to another court. … (E) Requests for hearing shall be made to the court in which the matter is pending, in accordance with these Rules, and the attorneys making such request shall serve notice to all counsel of the date and hour set for hearing and of the particular matter which will be considered at such time. … Insofar as practicable, Judges should attempt to agree on which case has priority, otherwise, the following priorities shall be observed by the Judges of the respective Courts: … (E) Counsel in Appellate Courts Counsel shall be excused from appearing for any purpose at a time when counsel is scheduled to appear before an appellate court of the United States, the State of Texas, or any other State. …
Reviewer note: Operative mandatory-language provisions quoted verbatim from the registered document; the full document (sha256 d041d2d68c74…) is the controlling text. Composed from the county's official per-rule decomposition (Preamble + Rules 1-15, clean text layers, county-clerk documents channel), cross-checked against the registered text edition (this registration). The identical 117-page instrument is registered eight further times (TOPICs docs 346/479/1190 [2017-final print], 731, 1189, 1192, 1193, and the table of contents as doc 480) and posted county-side as Local-Rules-for-County-Court-at-Law.pdf; the August 15, 2017 final version approved by the CCL judges is the same instrument. Amended by the Rule 6.11 amendment of November 20, 2024 and supplemented by Rule 7.26 (2006), each published separately.
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