Navarro County Court at Law Chambers Communication Rules

CRITICAL

Contact

Phone

The party requesting a telephone hearing is responsible for scheduling it and making the necessary arrangements.

The task of scheduling and making the appropriate arrangements shall fall on the party requesting that the hearing be conducted by phone.

CRITICAL

Contact

Email

Covered recipients must forward Court Appointed Attorney requests to Indigent Defense Coordinator Rosa Ella Mittnacht at the stated email address.

Any Magistrate who receives a request for a Court Appointed Attorney, anyone in the jail who receives a request for a Court Appointed Attorney, any request for any Court Appointed Attorney on any juvenile matter, any request for a Court Appointed Attorney for CPS and/or Empower, as well as any requests received by the Indigent Defense Coordinator for Court Appointed Attorney shall forward such requests to the Indigent Defense Coordinator Rosa Ella Mittnacht (rmittnacht@navarrocounty.org) within the statutory timelines in the indigent defense plans for adults and juveniles.

CRITICAL

Parties in civil cases must inform the Court if they file for bankruptcy protection.

Parties in a civil case have an affirmative duty to inform the Court if they file for protection under any bankruptcy law.

CRITICAL

Parties must continue to inform the Court of their bankruptcy proceedings' status until those proceedings are resolved.

Parties have a continuing obligation to inform the Court of the status of their bankruptcy proceedings until such proceedings are resolved.

CRITICAL

Attorneys must inform the Court of a qualifying change in a non-human client's legal status in a pending cause if it could affect collection or the Court's jurisdiction.

Attorneys have an affirmative duty to inform the Court of any change in the legal status of a non- human client {e.g. corporation) if the non-human client is party to a pending cause before the Court, and the change in the legal status of the party could affect the ability of any other party to collect payment from the non-human party,

CRITICAL

Attorneys must inform the Court if their client dies while a party to a pending cause.

Attorneys have an affirmative duty to inform the Court of their client's death if their client was a party to a pending cause before the Court.

CRITICAL

Present emergency or extraordinary-relief matters to the judge assigned to the case; if that judge is unavailable and waiting risks an emergency or irreparable harm, the matter may be presented to another judge, whose ruling the assigned judge must review at the earliest possible date thereafter.

Causes or pleadings requesting extraordinary or emergency relief shall be presented to the judge in whose court the case is pending. If that Judge is unavailable, and if waiting for that judge to become available would result in an emergency situation or irreparable harm, then the matter may be presented to any other judge for consideration. The judge in whose court the cause is pending shall review the otherjudge's ruling at the earliest possible date thereafter.

WARNING

Direct hearing-date and trial-setting requests to the Court Coordinator or Administrator, not the Judge.

All requests for hearings to be scheduled, or for trial settings to be made shall be directed to the Court Coordinator or Administrator for the court in which the case is pending. No requests for hearing dates or trial settings shall be directed to the Judge.

WARNING

Contact

Phone

A party may request a court reporter for a telephone hearing; the parties must agree on the costs, or the Judge will allocate them if they cannot agree.

A court reporter may be provided by the Court during these calls, if requested by a party, and the costs of providing a court reporter shall be allotted by agreement between the parties, or by the Judge if the parties cannot agree.

INFO

Contact

Phone

The Judge may allow proceedings or hearings that do not require evidence or exhibits to be conducted by telephone conference call.

At the discretion of the Judge, proceedings or hearings not requiring the introduction of evidence or exhibits may be conducted by telephone conference calls.