When must a qualifying Texas expedited action be set for trial?

Read the actual pleadings to establish Rule 169 eligibility and whether the case remains in that process.

Establish the complete Rule 190.2 discovery endpoint, including any controlling modification.

Obtain the party’s setting request, actual setting order and any continuance orders.

1. Read the actual pleadings to establish Rule 169 eligibility and whether the case remains in that process.
2. The ninety-day window in Rule 169(d)(2) follows the actual discovery endpoint and concerns the trial date selected on request. It does not run from the request itself. Check the separate cap of two continuances totaling no more than sixty days.
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 governs applicable computation, but it does not select the actual trial date or grant a continuance. Read the court’s scheduling and continuance orders and actual court calendar. This source guide applies no automated extension to a setting window.

A ninety-day addition alone cannot determine current expedited eligibility, the complete discovery endpoint, request, selected trial date or actual continuances. This guide publishes no court-selected date or paid calculation record.

Current expedited scope

Rule 169(a) requires all claimants other than counterclaimants to affirmatively plead only monetary relief aggregating $325,000 or less, with its stated exclusions for interest, statutory or punitive damages and penalties, attorney fees and costs.

Removal changes the process

Rule 169(c) requires removal on its good-cause or disqualifying-pleading conditions and reopening under Rule 190.2(c). A former expedited designation does not establish current eligibility.

Actual discovery endpoint

Rule 190.2(b)(1) has different non-family and Family Code discovery events. The first disclosure due date is not universally interchangeable with first discovery service.

Continuances require court action

Rule 169(d)(2) permits two continuances totaling no more than sixty days. It does not automatically add sixty days to every setting or authorize a party to move the date.

Final approval and effective date

The Supreme Court’s October 2, 2026 final order, Misc. Docket No. 26-9079, approved the Rules 47 and 169 amendments effective immediately. It establishes the reviewed $325,000 expedited monetary threshold. The October 1 consolidation date alone does not establish that amendment’s effective date, and historical proceedings still require their applicable law and orders. Rule 190.2’s separate qualifying-divorce estate test is not changed to $325,000 by this order.

• 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.

• Read the actual pleadings to establish Rule 169 eligibility and whether the case remains in that process.
• Establish the complete Rule 190.2 discovery endpoint, including any controlling modification.
• Obtain the party’s setting request, actual setting order and any continuance orders.
• Rule 169(a) requires all claimants other than counterclaimants to affirmatively plead only monetary relief aggregating $325,000 or less, with its stated exclusions for interest, statutory or punitive damages and penalties, attorney fees and costs.
• Rule 169(c) requires removal on its good-cause or disqualifying-pleading conditions and reopening under Rule 190.2(c). A former expedited designation does not establish current eligibility.
• Rule 190.2(b)(1) has different non-family and Family Code discovery events. The first disclosure due date is not universally interchangeable with first discovery service.
• Rule 169(d)(2) permits two continuances totaling no more than sixty days. It does not automatically add sixty days to every setting or authorize a party to move the date.
• Make and preserve the actual setting request and obtain the court’s trial-setting order. Verify the ordered trial date and any continuance orders against the applicable discovery endpoint. The guide does not replace the setting order with the latest day of a nominal window or infer an automatic extra sixty days.