Gregg County District Courts Document Filing Requirements

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Civil cases

Applies to

Proposed order

A proposed order reflecting a client's consent to withdrawal must contain the client's notarized signature before the court will sign it.

If, after receiving notice of the motion, your client consents to counsel withdrawing from the case, the Court will only sign the proposed Order if it contains your client's signature, and that signature is notarized by a Notary Public.

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Civil cases

Applies to

Proposed order

Counsel must submit proper evidence of client notice whenever submitting a consent order for signature.

If you submit a consent Order for signature, you must also submit for my review, proper evidence of notice to the client as set forth above.

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Applies to

Temporary hearing

At a temporary hearing, each party must produce available IRS returns, lists of property and debts, and an employer-verified statement of earnings.

At the temporary hearing, each party shall produce for the court any copies of past IRS returns in their possession, a listing of the property in their possession, a listing of the debts of the parties and a statement of the earnings of the parties, verified by the employer.

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Show cause order

Every show-cause order must require the respondent to produce two years of tax returns and an employer-verified year-to-date earnings statement.

All show cause orders shall command the respondent to produce the last two years’ tax returns and a statement of the year to date earnings of the respondent, verified by his employer.

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Enforcement filing

Must include

proposed order

Before the hearing, a prosecuting attorney seeking incarceration must present a proposed enforcement order finding contempt and assessing punishment, together with a writ of commitment.

Any prosecuting attorney who seeks to have respondent punished by incarceration shall present to the judge prior to the hearing a proposed Order On Enforcement, finding Respondent in contempt, assessing punishment, and a Writ of Commitment.

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Applies to

Judgment decree or order

Counsel must reduce judgments, decrees, and orders to writing and submit them for signature within ten days of pronouncement, unless the Court directs otherwise.

All Judgments, Decrees and Orders pronounced by the Court shall be reduced to writing by counsel for the prevailing party, or by counsel as directed by the Court, and submitted to the Court for signature within ten days of the pronouncement

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Applies to

Order objection

A party objecting to an order must raise the objection in writing to the Court and the opposing counsel or pro se party within five days.

Any party objecting to such order shall, within five (5) days, raise any objection in writing to the Court and opposing counsel or pro se party.

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Final judgment

If a final judgment is unsigned after 20 days, the matter is set for the following Friday at 1:15 p.m., when each party must present a substantially correct decree.

In any case in which a final judgment has not been signed within 20 days after pronouncement, the matter will be set for hearing on the following Friday at 1:15 p.m. at which time each party shall present to the Court a substantially correct decree.

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Applies to

Settlement certification

Before a contested final hearing, each party or attorney must certify that pleadings, discovery, and pretrial matters are complete and that settlement negotiations were made in good faith, or state why they were not completed.

Before any contested final hearing, each party, or his/her attorney, shall certify to the Court that all pleadings are in order, that all necessary discovery has been completed, that all pretrial matters have been disposed of and that the parties have made a good faith effort to negotiate a settlement, or, if not, the reasons these have not been completed.

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Applies to

Child support hearing

In every child-support case, each party must bring the last two years of income-tax returns and a current-earnings statement showing year-to-date gross pay and deductions to each hearing.

In every case involving support for children, whether the case is an original case, modification, or motion for contempt for back child support, each party must bring to each hearing the last two years’ income tax returns, a statement of current earnings with a year-to-date figure showing gross pay and deductions,

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Civil cases

Applies to

Withholding order

This Court will require compliance with this provision from this point forward, and will refrain from executing Withholding Orders that do not comply with this section.

Summary: All Withholding Orders must comply with Texas Family Code section 158.106 and the required specific form; the Court will not execute noncompliant orders.

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Applies to

Motion for exception to time standards ?

Exception from the case controls prescribed by the Supreme Court shall be permitted only on motion in writing, stating the reasons why the ends of justice require an exception and a finding by the Court that the circumstances in the case make an exception necessary.

Summary: A written motion stating why the ends of justice require an exception and why the case circumstances make it necessary is required to obtain relief from Supreme Court case-control time standards.