33rd / 424th District Courts

(Revised Jan 12, 2006)

All of the existing local rules have been uploaded other than the mediation rules. They all start with the filename of "ct-" and are in WordPerfect 5.0 format.

They include:
Appendix A - Form of Letter Requesting Setting for Trial

Major pieces of the rules in drafting have been published on the Court's CMS site. Included are:
General Rules
Civil Rules
Family Law Rules
Miscellaneous

together with a Table of Contents to the whole. See them here.

The CMS site has a facility for adding comments to each section. Attorney comments are welcome as are those of any of the clerks where you might be affected.

Rule 9    Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
9.1    Policy
It is the policy of the Courts to encourage the peaceable resolution of disputes and early settlement of pending litigation, including family law litigation, by referral to alternative dispute resolution (ADR) pursuant to the Texas Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures Act, Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, Chapter 154.

I have a lot of drafting done on the local rules and will eventually be posting pieces of them on the Procedures blog for comment.

In the meanwhile -- let me know of anything that you feel needs particular attention in the rules.
If you have specific language or sample rules on the web to point to that's fine also.

Policy Statement
    The 33rd and 424th Judicial Districts are each composed of the counties of Blanco, Burnet, Llano and San Saba. The Districts have general jurisdiction as provided in Article ___ of the Texas Constitution for civil, criminal, family, juvenile and specified matters. Management of a general jurisdiction, multi-county court system presents unique problems which require the understanding and cooperation of all stakeholders. Stakeholders include the judges, attorneys, civil litigants and criminal defendants, district attorney, district clerks, adult and juvenile probation departments and various related agencies such as county attorneys, law enforcement or the department of protective and regulatory services.