Tarrant County Civil District Courts Filing Bundling Requirements

CRITICALCivil cases

When a Scheduling Order exists, a continuance motion must include a proposed Amended Scheduling Order or the Court will not consider it.

If a Scheduling Order has been entered in a case, the Court will not consider any continuance motion without a proposed Amended Scheduling Order submitted with the continuance motion.

CRITICALCivil casesCourt notice

If the motion and response exceed 50 pages, a notebook must be delivered to the court two days before the hearing during one of the stated delivery windows.

If the motion and response is over 50 pages, a notebook must be delivered to the court 2 days prior to the hearing, between 9:00 am – 11:00 am or 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm.

CRITICAL

When the combined motion, response, reply, and related exhibits exceed 50 pages, the party requesting a hearing must deliver a binder containing all hearing-related documents by noon on the preceding day, failing which the hearing may be cancelled.

If your motion, response, reply, and/or related exhibits combined are in excess of 50 pages, the party requesting a hearing must deliver to the Court by 12 p.m. the day before the hearing a binder containing all documents related to the hearing (e.g., both parties’ motions, responses, replies, exhibits, and attachments) appropriately tabbed with a table of contents. Failure to do so may result in cancellation of the hearing.

INFOCivil cases

Case law binders are accepted, and attorneys may highlight portions to focus the Court’s attention.

The Court routinely accepts case law binders and has no problem with an attorney’s efforts to focus the Court’s attention to highlighted portions of the submitted case law.