Burleson County Civil Docket Searches
Start district civil, divorce, delinquent-tax, adoption, or name-change searches with the Burleson County District Clerk. The office permits public in-person civil searches at 205 E Fox, Suite 2001, Caldwell, from 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. Call 979-567-2336 about current procedure. Bring the cause number, court, filing year, case type, and approximate date.
Use the County Clerk for Constitutional County Court and probate files. Use the right Justice Court for eviction, small-claim, and other JP civil dockets. re:SearchTX can supply a statewide lead, but local confirmation remains vital.
- Classify the matter as district civil or family, county probate, or JP civil.
- Collect the cause number, court, year, type, and public party name if needed.
- Ask the proper clerk to locate the docket sheet and case events.
- Check filings, motions, settings, orders, and latest status in date order.
- Request the underlying order, judgment, or certified copy separately.
Burleson Civil Records at Fox Street
Burleson County civil records have no county-specific public viewer. The District Clerk route stays manual. Call or email with process questions, then inspect at the counter. Know which product you want before you ask, because a docket printout, a plain copy of a document, and a certified record are three different things.
Lawyers file through eFileTexas. A party without counsel may e-file too, or hand papers to the clerk, whenever Texas rules allow. Fax and email cannot carry an official filing. Keep two errands separate. Starting a new case is not the same as pulling up an old docket.
Civil Dockets: What They Show
Think of a Burleson County civil court docket as a register of events. It is not the whole packet of pleadings. Each row pairs a date with a court, an event label, and a status. One caution: an entry saying an order was filed tells you nothing about its terms. Pull the document itself whenever the exact ruling matters.
| Cause number | The local case key, called a cause number in the rules. |
|---|---|
| Case and court | The civil or family type and assigned district, county, or JP court. |
| Filings | Petitions, answers, notices, motions, and entries that point to papers. |
| Settings | Hearing, trial, status, mediation, or dismissal dates and later resets. |
| Outcome | Orders, judgment, dismissal, retention, or another disposition. |
Service details and attorney status can show up here too. Private data may be redacted, but the public event line stays visible.
Burleson Family Dockets Rotate
Local Rule 7.10 rotates family cases between the 21st and 335th District Courts across Burleson and Lee County. So never assume one judge owns every divorce docket. Check the court number on the cause, and go through that court's coordinator for settings.
The local standards aim to finish contested family cases within six months of appearance, and uncontested ones within three months of appearance or the waiting period. Treat those as management goals, nothing more. Actual events on the docket tell the real story.
What Cases Fill the Civil Docket
Jurisdiction decides which Burleson County civil docket a case lands on. Civil suits, divorce, delinquent tax, adoptions, and name changes sit with the District Clerk. The County Clerk holds probate and county-level matters. Evictions and smaller civil claims go to the four Justice Courts. Each clerk keeps its own docket.
- District civil claims and delinquent-tax suits
- Divorce, family, adoption, and name-change matters
- Constitutional County Court civil and probate cases
- Justice Court small claims and civil suits
- Justice Court eviction dockets
The County Clerk's property index can locate a recorded instrument, but it carries no court, cause number, hearing, or case-event fields. It is not a civil docket.
Burleson Probate Uses Another Clerk
Probate work begins with the County Clerk at 100 W Buck, Suite 203, Caldwell, reachable at 979-567-2329. Name the proceeding you need. Ask for letters, heirship, a small estate, muniment, a will contest, or guardianship. Vague requests for a county civil docket slow things down.
The fee sheet prices probate services, though a recorded instrument is never the same thing as the court file. Ask which events and papers are public. Decide upfront between an ordinary copy and a certified one.
Hearings on the Civil Docket
Under the revised 2025 local rules, district civil settings flow through the court coordinator. A request should carry the cause number, the style, and the type of hearing or trial. Add contact details and an estimate of time needed. Once the coordinator approves it, the requesting party serves a Notice of Setting. It carries the date, hour, nature, and allotted time.
Uncontested or ex parte hearings can be requested in person, by phone, or in writing. They land on the next available uncontested docket where allowed. Any reset requires court action. The Burleson County court schedule explains why the public county calendar cannot confirm a case setting.
Burleson Dismissal Docket Notices
Cases that outrun the local standards may land on an annual dismissal docket under local rules and Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 165a. A notice alone is not final. With many cases at once, the clerk's office may post a list.
A Motion for Retain is how a party shows good cause. Read the notice. Look for a later order. Then contact the clerk or coordinator to ask about the case. A dismissal setting on the docket never means the claim ended.
Burleson Civil Workload Totals
For scale, the Texas Office of Court Administration tallied fiscal 2024 locally. Civil cases climbed from 1,532 pending at the start to 1,715 at the end, on 237 added and 54 disposed. Family matters grew from 658 to 774, with 159 added and 43 disposed.
These are workload counts, not facts about any named case or a forecast of when it will finish.
Burleson Civil Filing Costs
Filing fees depend on which Burleson County office takes the paperwork. The County Clerk fee sheet effective January 1, 2024 lays out the county-level civil costs. A suit on debt runs $350. So does an occupational-license matter, an administrative license suspension appeal, and a nondisclosure filing. A writ costs $200, while a citation, summons, or subpoena is $75. Add a $40 jury fee if you want one. The schedule also sets $25 for the first filed or recorded page. Each added page after that costs $4.
| Listed item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Selected $350 civil rows | $350 |
| Writ | $200 |
| Citation, summons, subpoena | $75 |
| Jury fee | $40 |
Treat those numbers as a starting point, not a guaranteed total. Service, copies, e-filing provider charges, and special proceedings can all shift the final amount, so confirm the current cost with the clerk before you file anything into a Burleson County court docket.
Burleson Justice Court Civil Dockets
Burleson County spreads its Justice Court civil dockets across four precincts. Each one keeps its own docket. Precinct 1 sits at 6399 FM 111 in Caldwell and answers at 979-535-4761. Precinct 2 is at 9434 Slovacek Road in Snook, phone 979-272-3656. Precinct 3 works out of Suite 101 at 100 W Buck, reachable at 979-567-2301. Precinct 4 handles its civil docket from 16955 State Highway 36 South in Somerville. The phone is 979-596-1412.
At least one precinct handles civil suits mostly by office visit or phone. The county hands out eviction forms with instructions. Call ahead. Tell the precinct whether your matter is an eviction, a small claim, or another civil suit, and ask which cause number, inspection method, and copy route it uses. Don't assume a district cause-number pattern fits a JP file. That quick check also helps. It keeps a Justice Court setting from being mistaken for a District Court date on a docket search.
Historic Burleson Civil Records
The Burleson County Historical Commission page gives context for old courthouse records.
Digging into older Burleson County records may call for a different date range and a different custodian than a current civil docket search. The Texas Historic Sites Atlas lists the courthouse itself as historic property, with details on its place in county history.
That record covers the building, not case status. For that, ask the clerk.
Who Can See Civil Dockets
Texas court rules govern who may see a Burleson County civil court docket. A docket search that returns nothing does not prove a case is sealed. The miss could stem from the wrong court. It could also come from index limits, age, redaction, or restricted subject matter. Adoption and juvenile records often carry special limits of their own. Family and mental-health records often do too.
Key rules:
Texas Rule of Judicial Administration 12 provides a judicial-record inspection and review process.
Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 76a governs sealing procedure.
Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 21c requires sensitive-data redaction.
When a full filing can't be released, ask the clerk for the public docket line or a redacted copy. Requests for judicial case records go to the custodian directly. A general Texas Public Information Act demand is not the default route here.