No motion other than a motion for summary judgment, a plea to the jurisdiction or another dispositive motion may be filed or accepted by the clerk in the 365th District Court unless it carries one of three prescribed certificates of conference: counsel conferred substantively without resolving the matters; counsel made at least three attempts over two business days after delivering the proposed motion and got no response; or an emergency exists after at least one attempt (with the dates, methods and harm stated).
Applies to every non-dispositive motion filed in civil and family cases in the 365th District Court sitting in Maverick County (Judge Amado Abascal III); the court's Dimmit and Zavala County editions of the same order are published on those counties, and the three certificate forms are posted separately on the court's page. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
JUDGE AMADO ABASCAL, III — 365TH DISTRICT COURT — MAVERICK COUNTY, TEXAS. STANDING ORDER REQUIRING CERTIFICATE OF CONFERENCE BETWEEN COUNSEL IN ALL CIVIL AND FAMILY LAW CASES (Required by the 365TH District Court on all Motions except as provided herein). No Counsel for a party shall file, nor shall any clerk accept for filing, any Motion except a Motion for Summary Judgment, a Plea to the Jurisdi
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-07 from BenchPath's own-site custody copy (one image-only page read through the vision lane). Single current signer — court- and judge-joined. The three fill-in certificate forms the order prescribes are posted as separate one-page PDFs (text layers read) and recorded, not published, because their text is set out verbatim in the order.
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