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A standing order of the Wichita County District Courts exempting property-tax lawsuits from the automatic-disclosure requirement of Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 194.
Applies to delinquent-tax suits under Property Tax Code Ch. 31-34 in the Wichita County District Courts (30th, 78th, 89th).
[File stamp: FILED FOR RECORD AT: ______ O'Clock ____ M, AUG 30 2022, PATTI FLORES, Clerk Dist. Courts & County Courts at Law, Wichita County, Texas, By ______ Deputy] THE DISTRICT COURTS OF WICHITA COUNTY STANDING ORDER REGARDING MANDATORY DISCLOSURES IN TAX CASES FILED IN WICHITA COUNTY, TEXAS The Courts note 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 194.4. Tex. Rule Civ. Proc. 194.1 establishes a method for these Courts 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, we are of the opinion that tax cases filed in Wichita County 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. It is ORDERED that all parties in tax lawsuits filed in Wichita County, Texas under Texas Property Tax Code Chapters 31-34 in any of the District Courts are exempt from the automatic disclosure rules set out in Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 194. SIGNED AND ENTERED this 29th day of August, 2022. [signature] JEFF MCKNIGHT, PRESIDING JUDGE OF THE 30th DISTRICT COURT [signature] MEREDITH KENNEDY, PRESIDING JUDGE OF THE 78TH DISTRICT COURT [signature] CHARLES BARNARD, PRESIDING JUDGE OF THE 89th DISTRICT COURT
[File stamp: FILED FOR RECORD AT: ______ O'Clock ____ M, AUG 30 2022, PATTI FLORES, Clerk Dist. Courts & County Courts at Law, Wichita County, Texas, By ______ Deputy] THE DISTRICT COURTS OF WICHITA COUNTY STANDING ORDER REGARDING MANDATORY DISCLOSURES IN TAX CASES FILED IN WICHITA COUNTY, TEXAS The Courts note that Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 194.1(a) provides: Duty to Disclose. Except as exemp
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the TOPICs custody scan (read in full). Court-less division_family (district courts); signed in part by Barnard (former 89th). County-site prints (own-site 8740 and 8759) are receipts. County-site receipt(s) in custody 2026-09-06: https://wichitacountytx.com/download/standing-order-regarding-mandatory-disclosures-in-tax-cases/?wpdmdl=8740 (identical); https://wichitacountytx.com/download/standing-order-regarding-mandatory-disclosures-in-tax-cases-2/?wpdmdl=8759 (identical). [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 177cce0c7526..., 1 page(s), image-only scan; the OCR layer used as a typing base 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]
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