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Sixth (6th) Administrative Judicial Region — 6th AJR Local Rules, as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/01/2023). The operative requirements are quoted verbatim; the registered document is the controlling text.
FAMILY LAW CASES (1) contested Family Law cases Within 6 months from appearance date or within 6 months from the expiration of the waiting period provided by the Family Code where such is required, whichever is later. … (2) Uncontested Family Law Cases Within 3 months from appearance date or within 3 months from the expiration of the waiting period provided by the Family code where such is required, whichever is later. d. … (1) Detention Hearings Shall be held promptly, but not later than the second working day after a juvenile is taken into custody; provided, however, that when a juvenile is detained on a Friday or Saturday, then such detention hearing shall be held on the first working day after the juvenile is taken into custody. … (4) Nothing herein shall prevent a judge from recessing a juvenile hearing at any state of the proceeding where the parties are agreeable or, when in the opinion of the judge presiding in the case, the best interests of the child and of society shall be served. e. … It is recognized that in especially complex cases or special circumstances it may not be possible to adhere to these standards. … The local administrative judge or judges of each county shall, upon request by the presiding judge, cause the proper clerk to send the regional presiding judge a copy of the report sent each month to the Office of Court Administration, and such other information regarding docket management systems of the county as may be requested by the presiding judge. … The boards of judges, or judges giving preference to civil cases in each county, must adopt and uniformly follow local rules governing the filing, docketing and assignment of civil cases to achieve the time standards of Rule 6, Supreme Court Rules of Judicial Administration, and meet the requirements of Rules 7, 9 and 10, Supreme Court Rules of Judicial Administration. "Board of Judges, 11 as used in these rules, means the district courts and statutory county courts of a county. … The board of judges, or judges giving preference to family law and juvenile cases in each county, must adopt and uniformly follow local rules governing the filing, docketing and assignment of family law and juvenile cases to achieve the time standards of Rule 6, Supreme court Rules of Judicial Administration, and meet the requirements of Rules 7, 9 and 10, Supreme Court Rules of Judicial Administration. … The board of judges, or judges giving preference to criminal cases in each county, must adopt and uniformly follow local rules conforming with Article 32A.02, Code of Criminal Procedure, for the processing of criminal cases. … The district judge or judges of each county must, if required by law, adopt a jury plan governing the selection, management, assignment and time of jury service, and file the same with the district clerk, and, when required, secure the approval of the commissioners court. … (a) The rules adopted by a board of administrative region must requirements of these rules. judges within this conform to the (b) Local rules shall not be effective until approved by the presiding judge of the administrative region and by the Supreme Court of Texas. … The board of judges of each county must adopt as a part of the local rules a rule providing for regular meetings of the judges, committee assignments and other designations of duties necessary to the work of the courts of the county as required by Chapter 74, Government Code, V.T.c.s. … (2) Insofar as practicable, judges should attempt to agree on which case has priority; otherwise, the following priorities shall be observed by the judges of the respective courts: …
Reviewer note: Operative mandatory-language provisions quoted verbatim from the registered document; the full document (sha256 950a1a184964…) is the controlling text.
Establishes a Traffic Violations Bureau within the Clerk of the County Court under Fla. R. Traf. Ct. 6.100(a) (Burnstein, C.J., Nov. 1, 1988).
Approves the National Highway Safety Council Defensive Driving course as a school to which traffic courts may require attendance (Fla. R. Traf. Ct. 6.110(a)).
Designates the D.W.I. Counterattack School (Broward County Commission on Alcoholism) as an approved school for court-ordered attendance (Fla. R. Traf. Ct. 6.110(a)).