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Municipal Courts are the most active courts, with County Courts and District Courts handling most other cases and often sharing the same courthouse. Administration is the responsibility of the Supreme Court of Texas, which is aided by the Texas Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council and the State Bar of Texas, which it oversees.
Harris County Criminal Courts Building. The Harris County Flood Control District manages the effects of flooding in the county. The Harris County Sheriff's Office operates jail facilities and is the primary provider of law enforcement services to the unincorporated areas of the county. The sheriff is the conservator of the peace in the county.
A probate court (sometimes called a surrogate court) is a court that has competence in a jurisdiction to deal with matters of probate and the administration of estates. [1] In some jurisdictions, such courts may be referred to as orphans' courts [ 2 ] or courts of ordinary.
Jo Ann Delgado: [168] First Latino American female elected as a Justice of the Peace, Precinct 2, Place 1 of Harris County, Texas (2001) Pat Lykos: [169] First female District Attorney for Harris County, Texas (2009) Debra Ibarra Mayfield: [36] [170] [171] First Latino American female to serve as a county court judge in Harris County, Texas (2011)
93-year-old billionaire Rupert Murdoch’s legal effort to rewrite the terms of an irrevocable family trust will remain confidential, a Nevada judge ruled.
In common law jurisdictions, probate is the judicial process whereby a will is "proved" in a court of law and accepted as a valid public document that is the true last testament of the deceased; or whereby, in the absence of a legal will, the estate is settled according to the laws of intestacy that apply in the state where the deceased resided at the time of their death.
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Districts map. There are fourteen appellate districts each of which encompasses multiple counties and is presided over by a Texas Court of Appeals denominated by number: [19] The counties of Gregg, Rusk, Upshur, and Wood are in the jurisdictions of both the Sixth and Twelfth Courts, while Hunt County is in the jurisdiction of both the Fifth and Sixth Courts.