Rules & Forms
Rules & Standards
The rules listed below are the most current version approved by the Supreme Court of Texas. For any questions about the rules, please call (512) 463-4097.
Rule
Last Amended
August 1, 2022
June 16, 2021
Texas Court Rules: History and Process - Excerpted from Nathan L. Hecht & E. Lee Parsley, Procedural Reform: Whence and Whither (Sept. 1997), updated by Robert H. Pemberton (Nov. 1998)
How Texas Court Rules Are Made - By Nathan L. Hecht, Martha G. Newton, and Kennon L. Wooten (May 2016)
Local Rules
Administrative Judicial Regions
Last Amended
February 14, 2017
October 30, 2007
September 26, 2000
September 24, 1997
September 26, 1996
January 28, 2008
October 16, 2018
Standards
Standards
Last Amended
Proposed Changes
February 1, 1999
June 1, 2011
June 28, 2010