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The Parker County administrative order governing how cases are assigned, docketed and transferred among the district courts and county courts at law: random assignment, the courts that hear particular case types, transfers, consolidation, emergency applications and conflicting settings.
Governs assignment, docketing and transfer of cases among the Parker County District Courts and County Courts at Law.
Felonies are filed with the District Clerk for random assignment; misdemeanors with the County Clerk for random assignment between the County Courts at Law; juvenile criminal cases go to district court; and civil cases are filed with the clerk of the court where tried, except that eminent-domain cases go to a County Court at Law, contested probate to County Court at Law No. 2, tax cases to the 43rd or 415th, justice-court appeals to a County Court at Law, and ancillary proceedings (garnishment, bill of review, injunction of judgment) to the court of the principal suit. A refiled case after nonsuit returns to the original court; misdocketed cases are transferred by the Local Administrative Judge; and no case transfers between the County Courts at Law without both courts' permission. Related-case transfers follow notice and a hearing; Rule 174(a) consolidation motions are heard where the first case is pending; severed claims receive new cause numbers after the clerk's cost deposit; emergency applications go first to the judge of the court where filed and then to the Administrative Judge, with temporary-injunction and receivership hearings set in the original court and no re-presentation to another judge without leave. Conflicting settings require advance notice with a priority order (criminal and juvenile, statutory preference, preferential settings, earliest set, earliest filed), and failure to give notice may forfeit a continuance. Private process servers apply to the Local Administrative Judge, and cases are numbered by year, class and sequence. Adopted November 5, 2004 by the County Courts at Law, adopting the rules the 43rd and 415th District Courts adopted July 1, 2004.
Felonies are filed with the District Clerk for random assignment; misdemeanors with the County Clerk for random assignment between the County Courts at Law; juvenile criminal cases go to district court; and civil cases are filed with the clerk of the court where tried, except that eminent-domain cases go to a County Court at Law, contested probate to County Court at Law No. 2, tax cases to the 43r
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the county-site document (7 pp, read in full). County-level administrative order (division_family; filer-facing assignment and transfer duties); 2004, no judge join.
2 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1986-33A.
1 verbatim requirement from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1987-09.