Harrison County Court at Law - Local Rules for Family Law Matters (effective January 1, 2015)

High confidence· verified September 20, 2026Local RulesHarrison County Court at Law - Local Rules for Family Law Matters (effective January 1, 2015), Harrison County, Texas; posted on the county's website (https://www.harrisoncountytexas.gov/upload/page/0074/2024/Local%20Rules._Harrison%20County%20CCL.pdf), fetched 2026-09-15.

Summary

Local rules of the Harrison County Court at Law for family law cases filed with the District Clerk, effective January 1, 2015: responsibility of attorneys and parties, pleadings, time standards, the 8:30 a.m. docket for defaults, waivers and uncontested matters, temporary-order and enforcement hearings and what each party produces at them, the For Kids' Sake program, non-jury and jury settings, continuances, pretrial conferences, the standing temporary restraining order, priority of cases, discovery, submission of orders, children in court, settlement certification, miscellaneous practice rules and the courtroom dress code.

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LOCAL RULES FOR FAMILY LAW MATTERS HARRISON COUNTY COURT AT LAW EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2015 LOCAL COURT RULES FOR TRIAL SETTINGS AND DOCKET MANAGEMENT These rules apply to Family Law cases on file in the office of the District Clerk of Harrison County, Texas, and all such cases are to be governed hereby. These rules are adopted to achieve efficiency in the management of Family Law cases filed wi

Official source: Harrison County Courts - www.harrisoncountytexas.gov (county website; County Court at Law, District Court and District Clerk pages)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 20, 2026
Effective date: January 1, 2015
Last verified: September 20, 2026benchpath-tx-ajr10-p4-2026-09-20

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-20 (AJR-10 Tenth Region build, own-site layer) from BenchPath custody ajr10 corpus sources/county/harrison/c5353a04a4b9b49b.pdf (224,185 bytes, sha256 c5353a04a4b9b49b53297bbc37bc0f61915cbd330cef49c6b3431aac5c6f76bf; 8 page(s)) - the document the county posts on its own website, not registered with the Office of Court Administration's TOPICs registry as of 2026-09-20: digital text layer normalised (whitespace, hyphenation, page furniture) and every page checked against the rendered PDF; signature and file-stamp blocks bracketed. Posted on the County Court at Law page of the county website (file 'Local Rules._Harrison County CCL.pdf'). Signed on January 2, 2015 over the printed name 'JOE BLACK, PRESIDING JUDGE'; the posted file shows a signature line without a signature. The posted PDF is a re-typeset conversion of the rules, and its visible slips are kept as printed: 'I.' for the first item of the opening list and of the list in Rule 11; 'RULE 4: HEARINGS ON DEFAULT. WAIVERS'; 'TEMPORARY INJUNCTIONS. AND' (Rule 5); 'maybe by production' and 'notice to the response to produce' (Rule 5); 'Non-Jurv Calendar' (Rule 7); 'settings. cases shall be heard' and 'Ex Part orders' (Rule 11); 'RULES 16'; no period after 'Texas Family Code' in the alternate dispute resolutions paragraph. Running footers and page numbers are left out; three stray marks at page heads (scanner specks carried into the conversion) are dropped. [judge-procedure lane 2026-09-20: attached to Joe M. Black IV as the sole sitting judge of the County Court at Law (Harrison County); operative court procedure, attribution by current seat.]

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