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Local Rules of the Family Trial Division of the Judicial District Courts of Harris County, Texas (adopted April 23, 2025 — Harris County, as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 07/16/2025). The operative requirements are quoted from the registered document; the registered document is the controlling text.
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A suit involving the same parties or subject matter as a previously filed suit shall be assigned or transferred to the court where the prior suit was filed. … In cases involving property division or support, each party must serve the disclosures of property and financial information required by Rule 4 within the time the rule prescribes; failure to disclose is subject to sanction under Rule 215 and exclusion under Rule 193.6, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. … For temporary orders hearings, exhibits must be exchanged by 2:00 p.m. the business day before the hearing; for final trials, exhibits must be exchanged at least ten days before trial. The exchange required by this rule constitutes a discovery request under the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. … Motions must be in writing and accompanied by a proposed order; notice of a submission setting must be served at least ten days before the submission date, and any response must be on file at least three days before the submission date. … All cases pending and hereafter filed in the Family Trial Division are referred to the associate judge of the court in which the case is pending; this rule constitutes the order of referral under Section 201.006, Texas Family Code. … The parties must mediate before final trial unless the court authorizes otherwise; failure to mediate may result in dismissal or other sanction. … These rules take effect May 1, 2025. Ordered and adopted April 23, 2025, by the Administrative Judge and Rules Committee of the Family Trial Division and filed with the Harris County District Clerk.
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 e0097b88dd22…) is the controlling text. This edition supersedes the Family Trial Division rules registered as TOPICs doc 695 (the prior edition, posted 01/01/2023).
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