Kerr County Court at Law Filing Rules

At the bottom of all proposed ORDER SETTINGS, please list all the parties who need to be notified. If the parties are represented by attorneys, please list the attorney's names, fax numbers, email addresses and phone numbers. If they are pro se litigants, please give their addresses, phone number, email address if any. *

Before transporting a case file to another county for a hearing, the attorney must notify the District Clerk in the county where the case is filed.

In non-family civil matters, the Court will proceed to dismiss for want of prosecution if a party seeking affirmative relief takes no action directed toward trial on the merits within nine months.

The State must furnish the Defense a copy of the witness list on or before the day it files the list.

Criminal cases have no summary or automatic first continuances; continuances must comply with the cited statutes, reset dates must be obtained from the DA, and the continuing or resetting order must be signed by the DA.

The party requesting a setting should E-file the Request for Setting with the Clerk, then forward a copy of the file marked request to the Court Coordinator with the agreed order setting.

After the parties agree on a date, forward one courtesy copy of the file-marked Motion, the proposed Agreed Order with the date filled in, and a statement that the date is agreed to the Court Coordinator.

Before filing any motion, counsel must confer with opposing counsel and attempt to resolve the matter.