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Judge Bobby L. Rich, Jr.'s court rules for CCL No. 2 (the court holding misdemeanors and DWI felonies L–Z, contested probate, mental health, property tax, and half the county civil docket under the county assignment rules): the certificate-of-conference gate and two-alternative certificate; the judge-approval list for show-cause, habeas, attachment, garnishment, injunctive, protective, and TRO-extension orders; the court's Notice of Hearing (County Court at Law #2, 2nd Floor) with the certificate required on all notices and administrator-set hearings; TRCP 21 removal/reset with cost exposure; agreed final settings by scheduling order that must include mediation completed at least 5 weeks before trial; dilatory pleas heard ≥10 days pre-trial; mandatory scheduling conferences with the contents list and the trial-date-at-temporary-orders rule; optional pretrial conferences with attendance/authority rules and no-show consequences; conflicting-engagement and mediation-precedence rules; and the DWOP regime — the court's civil-practice framework in the 86th/422nd family, adapted to the county court at law.
Texas > Kaufman County > County Court at Law No. 2 (Judge Bobby L. Rich, Jr., 2nd Floor) — the court's civil-side practice rules; the county assignment rules give CCL No. 2 the L–Z misdemeanor/DWI-felony dockets, contested probate, mental health, property tax, and half of county civil.
Judge Bobby L. Rich, Jr. County Court-At-Law 2 Kaufman, Texas 75142 469-376-4757 [Seal: The State of Texas, Kaufman County] Court Rules and Procedures SETTING HEARINGS Certificates of Conference No motion or special exceptions will be set for a hearing until the moving party has communicated with opposing counsel to determine whether a contemplated motion will be opposed. If not opposed, the movin
Reviewer note: Text-layer document (8 pages, 362,766 B) transcribed with operative provisions verbatim through the DWOP framework; the tail sections follow the 86th/422nd family text. Linked from the live County Court at Law 2 page (kaufmancounty.net/509). Composed benchpath-ajr1-p6b. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 d97c495675b4..., 8 page(s), digital layer that failed the machine checks; text taken from the layer 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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