355th District Court Local Rules (Hood County)

High confidence· verified September 21, 2026Local RulesLocal Rules of the 355th Judicial District Court, Hood County (adopted Dec. 28, 2022) — TOPICs reg. doc 499.

Summary

The local rules of the 355th Judicial District Court of Hood County (adopted December 28, 2022): time standards, courtroom decorum, the calendar and setting process, criminal and civil pretrial practice, motion practice, trial procedure, and withdrawal and judgment submission.

Applies to

Applies to all matters in the 355th Judicial District Court of Hood County.

Source of truth

The 355th District Court's local rules (adopted December 28, 2022, repealing all prior rules) govern practice in the court. They set time standards and a dismissal docket; courtroom decorum incorporating the Texas Lawyer's Creed (male officers in suits or sport coats and ties, and no lawyer practicing before the Court may wear jeans; no ex parte communication; cell phones and electronic devices pr

Official source: TOPICs — Texas local rules registry (topics.txcourts.gov)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: December 28, 2022
Last verified: September 21, 2026benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p11-2026-09-21

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the TOPICs custody (28 pp, text layer, read in full). Court-specific 355th; judge-joined to Bufkin (named). The print bundles Appendix C (Standard Discovery Order) and Appendix E (tax-disclosure exemption), composed as their own rules on this receipt; Appendix F (family standing order, July 19, 2021 edition) is superseded by registration 1012 (Jan. 9, 2023); Appendices B/D are forms and A the setting letter (records inside the print). [RECOMPOSED 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P7, digital-layer lane): the full text of the registered file (sha256 ee9d35bd26d7..., 28 pages) replaces the earlier 2,340-character abstract. Method: pypdfium2 text layer reflowed page-aware, cross-checked word-by-word against PyMuPDF (10 substantive difference(s), 17 page-furniture), owner-corpus candidate sentences 96% (132/138) matched, 5 running header/footer line(s) removed, no U+FFFD/U+FFFE/form-feed debris. NOT yet checked page by page against the render, so confidence is medium with an open re-verification task; flip to high when a reviewer has read every page against the PDF. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p7-2026-09-21] [BY-EYE CHECK 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P11): every page of the registered file (sha256 ee9d35bd26d7..., 28 page(s)) read against the rendered PDF; file-stamp, caption and signature-block defects of the text layer corrected from the render; confidence lifted to high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p11-2026-09-21]

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