El Paso County Courts at Law Chambers Communication Rules

CRITICAL

Self-represented litigants must provide the clerk with their current address, email address, and telephone number.

Self-represented litigants shall be responsible for providing the clerk with current addresses, email addresses, and telephone numbers,

CRITICAL

Self-represented litigants must provide the clerk with their current addresses, email addresses, and telephone numbers.

Self-represented litigants shall be responsible for providing the clerk with current addresses, email addresses, and telephone numbers

CRITICAL

Hearings on applications for temporary injunctions, temporary receiverships, and similar matters must be set in the originally assigned court after consulting with that court.

Hearings on applications for temporary injunctions, temporary receiverships, and the like, shall be set in the court to which the case has been originally assigned by consulting with that court in compliance with these local rules.

CRITICAL

Counsel and parties must remain alert to security risks and notify the court or bailiff of any concerns.

All counsel and parties shall be alert to security risks and shall notify the court or bailiff of any security concerns.

CRITICAL

Hearings on applications for temporary injunctions, temporary receiverships, and similar relief must be set in the originally assigned court after consulting with that court.

Hearings on applications for temporary injunctions, temporary receiverships, and the like, shall be set in the court to which the case has been originally assigned by consulting with that court in compliance with these local rules.

CRITICAL

Requests to schedule non-jury matters must be made through the court coordinator, after reasonable efforts to check the other parties’ availability and with notice of scheduling conflicts and estimated duration.

(A) All requests for the scheduling of hearings, non-jury trial settings, and other non-jury appearances (collectively, “non-jury matters”) before the court will be made by contacting the court coordinator who will arrange an appropriate time to appear before the court. Before requesting a date and time for a non-jury matter, the requesting party shall make reasonable efforts to ascertain availability from the other parties and then inform the court coordinator of potential conflicts in the attorneys’ schedules and the estimated length of time needed for the non-jury matter.

CRITICAL

For hearings lasting three hours or more, attorneys must confirm in writing with the Family Law Court Coordinator at least one week in advance; parties must confer and tell the court the hearing is still needed, and failure to confirm may result in cancellation.

Attorneys shall confirm in writing with the Family Law Court Coordinator at least one week in advance of a hearing scheduled with duration of three hours or more. Parties must confer and advise the court that the said hearing is still needed. Failure to so confirm one week in advance may result in cancellation of the hearing by the court.

CRITICAL

Before separately conferring with parties or their lawyers to mediate or settle, the judge must notify all parties and may not later hear contested matters without all parties’ consent.

(b) conferring separately with the parties and/or their lawyers in an effort to mediate or settle matters, provided, however, that the judge shall first give notice to all parties and not thereafter hear any contested matters between the parties except with the consent of all parties;

CRITICAL

Hearings on temporary injunctions, temporary receiverships, and similar applications must be set in the originally assigned court by consulting with that court under the local rules.

Hearings on applications for temporary injunctions, temporary receiverships, and the like, shall be set in the court to which the case has been originally assigned by consulting with that court in compliance with these local rules.

CRITICAL

A judge consulting a disinterested legal expert must notify the parties of the expert’s identity and advice and give them a reasonable opportunity to respond.

(c) obtaining the advice of a disinterested expert on the law applicable to a proceeding before the judge if the judge gives notice to the parties of the person consulted and the substance of the advice, and affords the parties reasonable opportunity to respond;

CRITICAL

A judge must not initiate, permit, or consider ex parte communications about the merits of a pending or impending proceeding.

A judge shall not initiate, permit, or consider ex parte communications or other communications made to the judge outside the presence of the parties between the judge and a party, an attorney, a guardian or attorney ad litem, an alternative dispute resolution neutral, or any other court appointee concerning the merits of a pending or impending judicial proceeding.

WARNING

As directed by the Family Law Courts, setting requests may be required to be written, may specify the time needed, and may be filed with the clerk.

Requests for settings may be required to be in writing, may specify the amount of time needed, and may be filed with the clerk, as directed by the Family Law Courts.

WARNING

Self-represented litigants must provide the clerk with their current addresses, email addresses, and telephone numbers.

Self-represented litigants shall be responsible for providing the clerk with current addresses, email addresses, and telephone numbers,

WARNING

Before requesting a hearing or mediation date, the requesting party must reasonably check the other parties’ availability and inform the court coordinator of potential attorney scheduling conflicts.

Before requesting date for hearing or mediation, the requesting party shall make reasonable efforts ascertain from the other parties whether they are available, and then inform the court coordinator of potential conflict in the attorney’s schedules.

WARNING

Counsel and parties must remain alert to security risks and notify the court or bailiff of any security concerns.

All counsel and parties shall be alert to security risks and shall notify the court or bailiff of any security concerns.

WARNING

Counsel and parties must remain alert to security risks and notify the court or bailiff of any concerns.

All counsel and parties shall be alert to security risks and shall notify the court or bailiff of any security concerns.

WARNING

Court settings are arranged through the Family Law Court Coordinator.

Settings will be arranged through the Family Law Court Coordinator.

WARNING

An attorney with conflicting settings must promptly give advance notice to the courts and opposing counsel and state the priority of the settings.

Any attorney who receives a setting that is in conflict with another setting shall promptly provide advance notice to the courts and opposing counsel of such conflict. The attorney shall indicate in such notice any priority by indicating the order of settings by date or any other priority as provided for in Rule 3.06 (B).

INFO

An attorney scheduled to appear before a federal or state appellate court may be excused from another appearance upon notice to the court.

Upon notice to the court, attorneys may be excused from appearing for any purpose at any time when also scheduled to appear before any federal or state appellate court.

INFO

Contact

Phone

The parties may schedule hearings by conference call with the court coordinator.

Alternatively, the parties may also schedule hearings by conference call with the court coordinator.