66th District Court Policies (Hill County) — settings, hearings, jury trials, dispositive motions, mediation, ex parte relief, continuances and temporary orders (as of December 1, 2025)

High confidence· verified September 7, 2026Judge Preferences66th District Court Policies as of 12/01/2025 (rev. 11/25/25), Judge Justin W. Lewis, Hill County — county-site document (3 pp; filed with the District Clerk December 1, 2025); BenchPath custody sha256 e00ae40a217374d1bfbf1da4dd95fa7dad17ea7d10dae255d00f74f69b6d2dc0.

Summary

Judge Justin W. Lewis's court policies for the 66th District Court: time limits for temporary-orders hearings and bench trials; hearings and trials set by e-mailing the court coordinators and e-filing a notice of hearing or scheduling order; proof of notice for uncontested hearings; the jury-trial status conference and formal pre-trial hearing; dispositive motions filed and heard 30 days before trial and considered by submission; mandatory mediation with trial-time limits if skipped; ex parte relief by e-filing with a call to the coordinator; verified motions for continuances past the one-year anniversary; property-division and financial-statement requirements; child interviews; and when temporary orders are signed without a hearing.

Applies to

Applies to civil and family matters in the 66th Judicial District Court sitting in Hill County (Judge Justin W. Lewis); the court posts these policies as of December 1, 2025. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Source of truth

Time Limits — Temporary Orders are limited to 30 minutes per side. A "full-day" bench trial is two and a half hours per side. A "half-day" bench trial is approximately an hour and thirty minutes per side. To set a hearing, please email the court coordinators…

Official source: Hill County courts — co.hill.tx.us (county site tree)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 14, 2026
Effective date: December 1, 2025
Last verified: September 7, 2026benchpath-tx-f3-2026-09-07

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-07 (completeness fix F3) from the county-site document's text layer read in full (OCR artifacts in e-mail addresses corrected). Hill County was published benches-only (no TOPICs registrations); this is the court's own posted instrument. Bound to the 66th District Court (Hill) and to Judge Justin W. Lewis, whose policies these are.

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