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Standing order of the 143rd District Court exempting all parties in tax lawsuits filed in Loving, Reeves and Ward Counties under Property Tax Code chapters 31-34 from the automatic disclosures of Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 194; a party served with discovery requests must still respond to them timely.
Texas > Seventh Administrative Judicial Region > Reeves County > 143rd District Court.
[File stamp: 7,22,26 FILED P M., VALERIE ROMO, DISTRICT CLERK, WARD CO. TX 1:30, [signature] DEPUTY] [File stamp: 07,23,26 FILED 9:30 A M., [signature], DISTRICT COURT, REEVES CO. TX, ________ DISTRICT CLERK] 143rd DISTRICT COURT’S STANDING ORDER REGARDING MANDATORY DISCLOSURES IN TAX CASES FILED IN: LOVING COUNTY, REEVES COUNTY, AND WARD COUNTY The Court notes that Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 194.1(a) provides: Duty to Disclose. Except as exempted by Rule 194.2(d) or as otherwise agreed by the parties or ordered by the court, a party must, without awaiting a discovery request, provide to the other parties the information or material described in Rule 194.2, 194.3, and 19.4. That provision establishes a method for this Court to enter this Standing Order to waive the application of Rule 194 in specific circumstances. After due consideration and in order to maximize judicial efficiency and economy, this Court is of the opinion that tax cases filed in Loving County, Reeves County, and Ward County, Texas under Texas Property Tax Code Chapters 31-34 should be exempt from the mandatory disclosure requirements set out in Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 194, but further notes that any party in a tax lawsuit under Texas Property Tax Code Chapters 31-34, that is duly served discovery requests by the opposing party, will still be fully and completely obligated to timely respond to any such party initiated discovery requests. THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that all parties in tax lawsuits filed in Loving County, Reeves County, and Ward County, Texas under Texas Property Tax Code Chapters 31-34 in the 143rd District Court are exempt from the automatic disclosure rules set out in Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 194. SIGNED AND ENTERED this 21st day of July, 2026. [The printed year reads "2025"; it is struck through and "2026" is written above it.] [signature] ALAN NICHOLAS, PRESIDING JUDGE OF THE 143rd DISTRICT COURT [Certified copy stamp: CERTIFIED COPY CERTIFICATE, STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF WARD - I hereby certify that the above is a true & correct copy of the original record on file in my office. VALERIE ROMO, DISTRICT CLERK, WARD CO. TX, By: [signature] Deputy] [seal]
[File stamp: 7,22,26 FILED P M., VALERIE ROMO, DISTRICT CLERK, WARD CO. TX 1:30, [signature] DEPUTY] [File stamp: 07,23,26 FILED 9:30 A M., [signature], DISTRICT COURT, REEVES CO. TX, ________ DISTRICT CLERK] 143rd DISTRICT COURT’S STANDING ORDER REGARDING MANDATORY DISCLOSURES IN TAX CASES FILED IN: LOVING COUNTY, REEVES COUNTY, AND WARD COUNTY The Court notes that Texas Rule of Civil Procedur
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-25 (AJR-7 Seventh Region build, own-site layer) from BenchPath custody ajr7 corpus sources/documents/760f545a8dc3f367-standing-order-mandatory-disclosures-in-tax-cases.pdf (275,071 bytes, sha256 760f545a8dc3f36716dda4936441828ed37b8b8542503d9d5a1c2b66071aa83a; 1 page(s)) - the document the Reeves County website posts (https://www.reevescounty.org/home/showpublisheddocument/6228/639207550975470000), not registered with the Office of Court Administration's TOPICs registry as of 2026-09-25: transcribed by eye from the rendered pages of the scanned file (no machine text relied on) and read a second time against the page images - for long documents word by word against an independent machine OCR of the same scan, every disagreement and every handwritten entry resolved on the image; signature, seal and file-stamp blocks bracketed. Signed: Alan Nicholas, Presiding Judge of the 143rd District Court (July 21, 2026; the printed year 2025 corrected by hand to 2026). The quoted rule prints "19.4" where Rule 194.4 is evidently meant, kept as printed.
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