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The comprehensive local rules of the Jefferson County civil district courts (58th, 60th, 136th, 172nd), effective October 20, 2025: disposition time standards (civil jury cases within 18 months, non-jury within 12 months of appearance); random filing/assignment with a case staying on its assigned docket unless transferred; transfer rules (prior-judgment claims and bills of review to the rendering court; ancillary garnishments to the court of the pending suit); and the courts’ settings, docketing, motion, pretrial, and trial procedures.
Texas > Jefferson County > the civil district courts (58th, 60th, 136th, 172nd). The 58th also publishes its own DCO/pretrial/docket-call instruments; these county-civil rules govern all four.
RULE 1 (Objective): matters brought to trial or final disposition within "(a) Civil jury cases within 18 months from appearance date; (b) Civil non-jury cases within 12 months from appearance date." RULE 2 (Assignment): "cases will be filed by random selection in courts. Once assigned to a court, a case will remain on the docket of that court for all purposes unless transferred..." Transfer: "Prior Judgment. Any claim for relief based upon a prior judgment shall be assigned to the court of the original judgment. Bills of Review. Every suit or proceeding in the nature of a bill of review... shall be filed in and assigned to the Court in which such judgment, order or decree was rendered. Ancillary Garnishments. Every ancillary garnishment shall be assigned to the Court in which the suit is pending... Garnishments after judgment shall be assigned to the court which rendered the judgment on which the garnishment is based." The rules continue with settings, docketing, motions, pretrial, and trial procedure.
Reviewer note: Image-only registration (8 pages) read through the vision lane; objective/time-standards/assignment/transfer provisions quoted verbatim; effective October 20, 2025. Composed benchpath-ajr2-jefferson.
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