Tarrant County Civil District Courts Document Format Requirements

CRITICALCivil cases

Proposed jury charges or findings of fact and conclusions of law must be emailed to the Court Coordinator in Word format no later than the start of trial.

The proposed jury charge and/or findings of fact and conclusions of law, all in Word format, must be emailed to the Court Coordinator by no later than start of the trial.

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Format

PDF

Exhibits must be submitted in PDF format.

The documents must be in .pdf format.

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Format

PDF

Exhibits submitted for a hearing must be in PDF format.

The documents must be in .pdf format.

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Proposed orders must be submitted in word format by email to the specified address.

Please submit your proposed orders in word format by email to 348DC@tarrantcountytx.gov

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A required hearing binder must be appropriately tabbed.

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.

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The page numbers must use Book Antiqua 10-point font.

Book Antiqua 10-point font

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The jury charges must use Book Antiqua font.

Book Antiqua Font

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Audio exhibit files must be in MP3 format and submitted on a USB drive.

Audio Files must be in “mp3” format and submitted on a USB drive.

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Video exhibit files must be in MP4 format and submitted on a USB drive.

Video Files must be in “mp4” format and submitted on a USB drive.

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The page numbers must be placed in the footer and left justified.

Placed in footer, left justified

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An exhibit larger than 8½ by 11 inches must be accompanied by a letter-sized copy.

Large Exhibits exceeding 8 ½” X 11” must be accompanied by a letter-sized copy.

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Exhibits must be redacted as needed, pre-marked, tabbed, indexed with a table of contents, and placed in a binder.

All exhibits shall be redacted (as needed), pre-marked, tabbed and indexed with a table of contents, and placed in a binder.

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The jury charges must include page numbers.

Page numbers

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Condensed deposition transcripts must use yellow highlighting for plaintiff's designated testimony and orange highlighting for defendant's designated testimony.

Highlight in Yellow – Plaintiff’s designated testimony b. Highlight in Orange – Defendant’s designated testimony

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Margins

top 1 in, bottom 1 in, left 1 in, right 1 in

The jury charges must use one-inch margins.

1-inch margins

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The jury charges must use 12-point font.

12-point font size

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Format

PAPER

All exhibits other than video/audio file exhibits must be submitted in hard-copy form at the time of the hearing or trial.

All other exhibits you wish to offer are to be submitted at the time of hearing or trial in hard-copy form.

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Audio and video exhibits must be brought on a flash drive and given to the court reporter at the time of the trial or hearing.

Please bring correctly sized and formatted audio/video exhibits on a flash drive to be given to the court reporter at the time of your trial or hearing.

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Audio and video exhibits may be submitted in MP3 or MP4 format, with a maximum file size of 10GB.

“…audio and video files may be submitted in MP3 or MP4 format with a file size limit of 10GB.”

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Exhibits should be numerically marked, tabbed, and placed in binders.

Please have exhibits numerically marked, tabbed, and in binders.

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Format

PAPER

Exhibits must be submitted in hard-copy form unless they are video or audio file exhibits.

All exhibits are to be in hard-copy form except for video/audio file exhibits.

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Format

DOCX

The proposed charge must be submitted electronically in Microsoft Word format to the court reporter by e-mail or flash drive.

Each side shall submit their proposed charge in electronic format (Microsoft Word) to the court reporter via e-mail or flash drive.

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Exhibits larger than 8½ by 11 inches must be accompanied by an 8½-by-11-inch copy; after trial, the reporter retains the copy and returns the original to the offering party.

Exhibits exceeding 8 ½” x 11” in size will be accompanied by an 8 ½” x 11” copy. After completion of trial, the court reporter will retain only the 8 ½” x 11” copy and the original exhibit will be returned to the offering party.