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Local Rules of the Probate Courts of Harris County, Texas (adopted June 4, 2025) — Harris County, as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 06/23/2025). The operative requirements are quoted from the registered document; the registered document is the controlling text.
Texas > Harris County > Statutory Probate Courts Nos. 1-5
These rules do not apply to mental health matters, except for the requirement of the Clerk's monthly report. … Upon filing, cases are assigned among the courts randomly in accordance with the courts' administrative orders; a case involving the same decedent or ward as a prior case shall be assigned to the court of the original filing. … Applications to probate the wills of a husband and wife filed at the same time shall be assigned to the court holding the lowest-numbered case. … If the decedent was a ward of one of the Probate Courts, the estate proceeding shall be filed in the court in which the guardianship was pending. … A case may be transferred from one court to another by written order of the judges of both courts. … On recusal, the case is referred to the presiding judge for random re-assignment. … Cases on file for more than three years without disposition may be placed on a dismissal docket for want of prosecution under Rule 165a, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. … All motions shall be in writing and accompanied by a proposed order. Notice of the submission date must be served at least ten days before the submission date, and responses shall be filed no later than three days before the submission date. … Contested hearings, pretrial conferences, and trials are presumptively conducted in person under Rule 21(d), Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. … The parties must engage in alternative dispute resolution before trial unless the court finds good cause to waive the requirement. … No court may have more than one case assigned to trial at a time. … Before any judgment, dismissal, or nonsuit, the fees of a court-appointed appointee must be set by written order, and the title of the order must include the word "Appointee". Adopted June 4, 2025, by the judges of all five statutory probate courts and filed with the Harris County Clerk on June 23, 2025.
Reviewer note: Operative provisions transcribed by vision-read of the registered scanned document (rasterized at 170 dpi; the embedded text layer is absent or corrupt); the registered document (sha256 91ffb75d074c…) is the controlling text.
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