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Remote Detention Hearing Procedures for the 118th Judicial District Court of Howard, Martin, and Glasscock Counties as an Alternate Juvenile Court

High confidence· verified September 25, 2026Remote / Zoom HearingsRemote Detention Hearing Procedures for the 118th Judicial District Court of Howard, Martin, and Glasscock Counties as an Alternate Juvenile Court. TOPICs registration 1905 (Howard County, Standing Orders, registered 05/02/2024).

Summary

Plan adopted by the 118th District Court, sitting as an alternate juvenile court for Howard, Martin and Glasscock Counties, under Family Code section 54.012 for conducting juvenile detention hearings as remote proceedings: the court may allow or require remote participation; parties may cross-examine witnesses; a testifying party or witness must be on camera with an unobstructed view; physical evidence is displayed to all participants, digital copies are emailed to the court at 118thdistrictcourt@howardcountytx.com and to counsel beforehand when practicable, and evidence that cannot be digitized is tendered to the court within 3 days.

Applies to

Texas > Seventh Administrative Judicial Region > Howard County > 118th District Court.

Source of truth

Remote Detention Hearing Procedures for the 118th Judicial District Court of Howard, Martin, and Glasscock Counties as an Alternate Juvenile Court I. Plan Adoption In accordance with Texas Family Code 54.012, the 118th Judicial District Court, Texas, adopts the following plan to conduct detention hearings as remote proceedings. II. Definitions A. Detention hearings have the same meaning, scope

Official source: TOPICs — Texas local rules registry (topics.txcourts.gov)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 25, 2026benchpath-tx-ajr7-p2-2026-09-24

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-24 (AJR-7 Seventh Region build) from BenchPath custody sources/documents/c4a434bdb8483f42-juvenile-remote-detention-hearing-procedures-of-the-118th-district-cou.pdf (application/pdf, 473482 bytes, sha256 c4a434bdb8483f4256cdae6de0fa5316a1ca73b5edb8206e6321818a690066bf; 2 pages) - the TOPICs-registered document: transcribed from the rendered pages of the scanned PDF (the machine OCR layer was not relied on), every page read against the render; signature, seal and file-stamp blocks bracketed. Source typos kept as printed: "if it party", "the requirement or an unobstructed view", "proceeding If the".