Hood County Court at Law — Local Rules of Practice

High confidence· verified September 23, 2026Local RulesHood County Local Rules of Practice of the Statutory County Court at Law (adopted Jan. 10, 2023) — TOPICs reg. doc 1051.

Summary

The local rules of practice of the Hood County Statutory County Court at Law (adopted January 10, 2023): decorum, civil settings and ADR, criminal arraignment and plea practice, family procedure, the uncontested docket, and trial procedure.

Applies to

Applies to civil, criminal and family matters in the Hood County Court at Law.

Source of truth

[Stamp: FILED JAN 10 2023, [signature] KATIE LANG, CLERK COUNTY COURT AT LAW, HOOD COUNTY TX] LOCAL RULES STATUTORY COUNTY COURT AT LAW HOOD COUNTY, TEXAS Adopted by Order dated January 10, 2023 [signature] RICHARD L. HATTOX, HOOD COUNTY COURT AT LAW JUDGE TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Order Adopting Rules Title 1: Conduct and Decorum, Motions for Continuances, Conflict in Trial Settings Title 2

Official source: TOPICs — Texas local rules registry (topics.txcourts.gov)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: January 10, 2023
Last verified: September 23, 2026benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the TOPICs custody (35 pp, vision lane, read in full). Court-specific CCL; judge-joined to Hattox (named). Exhibit 4 (CCL Standard Discovery Order) composes as its own rule on this receipt; Exhibits 1-2 are appointed-counsel fee schedules and Exhibit 3 a form (records inside the print); Exhibit 5 is the family standing order (registration 1012). [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 66530d0a0508..., 35 page(s), image-only scan; the OCR layer used as a typing base and corrected word by word from the page) read against the rendered file; verbatim, source typos kept, stamps/signatures bracketed; the earlier abstract replaced by the full instrument; confidence high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21]

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Hood County Court at Law — Local Rules of Practice

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Hood County Court at Law — Local Rules of Practice

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