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Galveston County Rules and Standing Order of the Probate Court Concerning the Electronic Filing of Court Documents — Galveston County. The operative requirements are quoted verbatim from the governing document (registered/posted posted); the document in custody is the controlling text.
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A Convenience Fee charged by the County Clerk will be considered as a court cost. … Rule 2.2 Application to Pro Se Litigants The term "counsel" shall apply to an individual litigant in the event a party appears pro se. … Documents Containing Signatures (a) A document that is required to be verified, notarized, acknowledged, sworn to, or made under oath may be electronically filed only as a scanned image. … (b) To become registered to electronically file documents, filers must follow registration procedures outlined by Texas.gov. … A filer filing or serving a document must have a valid account with an EFSP and with Texas.gov (d) Consistent with standards promulgated by the Judicial Committee on Information Technology (JCIT), Texas.gov will specify the permissible formats for documents that will be electronically filed and electronically served. … This fee will be in addition to regular filing fees. … This fee will be in addition to regular filing fees and will be in an amount not to exceed the amount approved by the Department of Information Resources Board. … This fee will be in addition to regular filing fees, credit card fees, or other fees. … Rule 4.2 Signatures (a) Upon completion of the initial registration procedures, each filer will be issued a confidential and unique electronic identifier. … Each filer must use his or her identifier in order to electronically file documents. … If a document is electronically transmitted to the filers EFSP and is electronically transmitted on or before the last day for filing the same, the document, if received by the county clerk not more than ten days tardily, shall be filed by the county clerk and deemed filed in time. … (c) On receipt of a filer's document, the filers EFSP must send the document to Texas.gov in the required electronic file format along with an indication of the time the … The acknowledgment will note the date and time that the electronically-transmitted document was received by Texas.gov, (d) Upon receiving a document from a filer's EFSP, Texas.gov shall electronically transmit the document to the county clerk. … (e) Not later than the first business day after receiving a document from Texas.gov, the county clerk shall decide whether the document will be accepted for filing. … The county clerk shall accept the document tor filing provided that the document is not misdirected and complies with all filing requirements. … The county clerk shall handle electronically- transmitted documents that are filed in connection with an affidavit of inability to afford court costs in the manner required by TEX. … (I) If the document is accepted for filing, the county clerk shall note the date and time of filing which, with the exception of subsection (h) below, shall be the date and time that the filer transmitted the document to the filer's EFSP. … The county clerk shall inform Texas.gov of its action the same day action is taken. … Texas.gov shall, on that same day, electronically transmit to the filer's EFSP a "confirmation" that the document has been accepted for filing by the county clerk. … (g) If the document is not accepted for filing, the county clerk shall inform Texas.gov of its action, and the reason for such action, the same day action is taken. … Texas.gov shall, on that same day, electronically transmit to the filer's EFSP an "alert" that the document was not accepted along with the reason the document was not accepted. … (h) Except in cases of injunction, attachment, garnishment, sequestration, or distress proceedings, documents that serve to commence a civil suit will not be deemed to have been filed on Sunday when the document is electronically transmitted to the filer's EFSP, Texas.gov, or the county clerk on Sunday. … Such documents will be deemed to have been tiled on the succeeding Monday. … 57, a filer must include an e-mail address on any electronically-filed document. … Rule 4.S DO<'ument Format (a) Electronically-filed documents must be computer-formatted as specified by Texas.gov. … Electronically-filed documents must also be formatted for printing on S!I,- inch by II-inch paper. … Rule 5.2 Completion of Service and Date of Service (a) Electronic service shall be complete upon transmission of the document by the filer to the party at the party's e-mail address. … (b) Except as provided by subsection (c) below, the date ofservice shall be the date the electronic service is complete. … (recipient's time), then the date of service shall be deemed to be the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday. …
Reviewer note: Operative mandatory-language provisions quoted verbatim from the posted document; the full document (sha256 474f783dfd36…) is the controlling text. Text recomposed 2026-09-08 (Phase 3i): read against the official print through the vision lane, or restored from unambiguous typographic artifacts of the text layer; wording unchanged. Text recomposed 2026-09-08 (Phase 3i): read against the official print through the vision lane, or restored from unambiguous scanning mis-reads of the text layer; wording unchanged.
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.