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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 civil, criminal and family matters in the Hood County Court at Law.
[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
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]
Division XI: information forms for data processing (Rule 11.2); required action - action taken on all calendared cases and a future date always set (Rule 11.19); and pro tem judges - an attorney named as a plaintiff in a civil or small claims case may not sit as a judge pro-tem during the case or within six months following its resolution, nor one named as a defendant in two or more such cases (Rule 11.22). Rules 11.1, 11.3 to 11.5, 11.7 to 11.18, 11.20 and 11.21 are repealed, and Rule 11.6 (voluntary arbitration; see Local Rule 10.2) was repealed and renumbered.
Duval County's indigent-defense and magistration rules under the Texas Fair Defense Act (S.B. 7): who may be booked into the county jail and on what paper; arrest-case numbering; presentment to a magistrate within 48 hours (art. 15.16); the magistrate's warnings, counsel inquiry, interpreter duty, indigence determination and appointment of counsel within 24 hours of a request; the alternative appointment plan under art. 26.04(g)-(h) with annual applications, seven attorney categories (capital, first and second degree, third degree/state jail/misdemeanor, competency, appeals, post-conviction, extradition), CLE and experience standards, random rotation within each category, written acceptance within 48 hours, first contact by the end of the next working day, replacement and suspension of counsel, fee applications within five days of completing services and the compensation attachment ($500 pleas; $175/$150 hourly; $1,400 per jury-trial day; appellate caps); bail schedules by offense class with a personal bond office (fee $20 or 3%), pre-trial supervision and revocation hearings within two working days; arraignment settings and notice; repeal of conflicting rules.
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