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360th District Court (Tarrant County) — Guidelines Concerning Notice of Proceedings (TRCP 21d) and Evidence Formats

High confidence· verified September 22, 2026Judge Preferences360th Guidelines Concerning Notice of Proceedings (TRCP 21d), 360th District Court, Tarrant County — posted on the court's county web page

Summary

The 360th District Court's guidelines on Rule 21d notices of proceedings: evidence is taken only after both sides have proper notice; the notice should tell parties that evidence is submitted under the Texas Rules of Evidence; the court's bailiffs are the Rule 21d "designated persons"; all hearings are in person unless extraordinary circumstances exist and the remote-proceeding rules are followed; exhibits marked by number with copies to each party, the amicus/ad litem and the court reporter; complex property cases need an Excel spreadsheet of assets; audio in MP3 and video in MP4 (no .mov; 5 GB cap); in hybrid or remote evidentiary settings, documentary evidence goes to the court reporter and all counsel by 10:00 a.m. the business day before as text-searchable, unencrypted PDFs (OCR'd scans; 100 MB cap) with account and Social Security numbers redacted. The court states the language is "not mandatory" and that non-compliance "is not an independent ground for exclusion of evidence."

Applies to

Texas > Tarrant County > 360th District Court and its Associate Court (family) — notices of proceedings and exhibit preparation; stated as guidelines, with in-person hearings the default.

Source of truth

360th Guidelines Concerning Notice of Proceedings Evidence may only be submitted in open court after both sides have had appropriate notice of Court Proceedings. The following language should be used to comport with 21d, in addition to such information as we may add to our respective web pages: "Each party to this action hereby is notified that evidence shall be submitted to the Court in accordanc

Official source: Tarrant County Family District Courts — tarrantcountytx.gov (county site tree)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 6, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 22, 2026benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21

Reviewer note: Own-site document (text layer, 4,759 chars) read in full 2026-09-06; quoted verbatim including the court's own non-mandatory caveat; undated. Judge Patricia Baca Bennett presides (index page; OCA). Composed benchpath-ajr8-tarrant (own-site lane). [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 1b4f37351ad2..., 3 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]