Judge Gabriela Garcia

Applies to

Order

Every order submitted to a district court for consideration or signature must list the valid email addresses of all parties requiring notification at the bottom of the document.

Applies to

Temporary relief application

Except when the District Clerk's office is closed during an emergency, an application for immediate or temporary relief must be filed and assigned to a court before it is presented to a judge.

Applies to

Ex parte order application

Every application for an ex parte order must be presented in accordance with Rule 1.2.

All pleadings, motions, orders, other papers, and attached exhibits must be descriptively titled, prepunched at the top, and have every page numbered and titled in the lower margin.

Pleadings, motions, orders, other papers, and attached exhibits must be descriptively titled and prepunched at the top for the clerk’s flat-filing system.

Each page of an instrument must be numbered and identified in the lower margin, such as “Plaintiffs Original Petition - page 2.”

Service

Email

Counsel must maintain current contact information and ensure that their email providers permit sufficiently large attachments and do not block Cameron County District Clerk transmissions, and inadequate contact information will not constitute good cause for lack of notice.

Applies to

Temporary order

The party obtaining a temporary order must serve notice of the required hearing's date and time with that order.

Requesting counsel must immediately provide written notice of a hearing, pretrial, or trial setting to every other party.

Beginning July 1, 2014, attorneys must electronically file all documents in family and civil cases with the District Clerk of Cameron County, and paper filings will not be accepted.

The current document-filing procedures for criminal cases will remain unchanged.

Telefax and electronic filing may be used only as permitted and must comply with the applicable local rules, but certain courts do not accept facsimile filings.