How much notice is required for a first contested Texas trial setting?

Establish that the case is contested and identify its actual first trial setting.

Obtain the written request, setting notice, recipient evidence and any party agreement.

Identify previous settings and resets before applying the first-setting branch.

1. Establish that the case is contested and identify its actual first trial setting.
2. Rule 245’s forty-five-day minimum and reasonable notice apply to the ordinary first contested setting. The party-agreement alternative and reasonable-notice rule for a later reset are separate. Do not infer forty-five new days from every later setting.
3. Read the actual order and confirm every stated condition.
4. Complete the act required by the rule, not merely a date calculation.

Rule 4 excludes the triggering act or event and includes the last computed day. Periods longer than five days count intermediate weekends and holidays. Do not automatically move a backward latest date forward toward trial and shorten the required interval. Read the current rule, actual court calendar and order. This guide applies no automatic backward closed-day adjustment.

The isolated forty-five-day preset cannot select contested status, first-setting versus reset, agreement or reasonable notice. Its backward review setting does not resolve a closed-day date. This guide supplies no calculated setting or notice deadline.

Later reset

A case previously set may be reset to a later date on any reasonable notice to the parties or by agreement. Rule 245 does not repeat the first-setting forty-five-day minimum for that separate branch.

Noncontested cases

Rule 245 permits noncontested cases to be tried or disposed of at any time whether set or not. Establish actual contested status before applying the first-setting notice requirement.

Readiness representation

A trial-setting request represents a reasonable and good-faith expectation of readiness by the requested date. The rule does not require an additional representation of completed pretrial proceedings or present readiness to obtain a setting.

Clerk setting information

Rule 246 requires the clerk to keep the setting record and send the setting date on proper written request. Its stated failure and prejudice conditions may support continuance or a new trial; relief is not established merely by a missed message.

• This guide does not establish the actual pleadings, service, calendar, legal entitlement or terms of a signed order.
• The current consolidation date does not decide historical applicability of an individual amendment.

• Establish that the case is contested and identify its actual first trial setting.
• Obtain the written request, setting notice, recipient evidence and any party agreement.
• Identify previous settings and resets before applying the first-setting branch.
• A case previously set may be reset to a later date on any reasonable notice to the parties or by agreement. Rule 245 does not repeat the first-setting forty-five-day minimum for that separate branch.
• Rule 245 permits noncontested cases to be tried or disposed of at any time whether set or not. Establish actual contested status before applying the first-setting notice requirement.
• A trial-setting request represents a reasonable and good-faith expectation of readiness by the requested date. The rule does not require an additional representation of completed pretrial proceedings or present readiness to obtain a setting.
• Rule 246 requires the clerk to keep the setting record and send the setting date on proper written request. Its stated failure and prejudice conditions may support continuance or a new trial; relief is not established merely by a missed message.
• Preserve the actual setting order or notice and evidence of notice to the parties or their agreement. A written setting request represents a reasonable and good-faith expectation of readiness by the requested date. Under Rule 246, a proper written request to the clerk obtains setting information by its specified procedure. A docket entry alone does not establish every party’s notice.