Texas Legislative Council
Texas Constitution and Statutes
Official Constitution and code text organized by statute and section.
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Texas court records begin with the court that keeps them
GuideWeSpeakLaw EditorialUpdated August 24, 2026Sources reviewed
There is no single Texas trial-court search that answers every case question. Start with the correct court, keep the exact case details, and verify the record with its clerk.
Official record
Primary sources
Texas Judicial Branch
Basics of the Texas Judicial System
The current official list of Texas trial-court types.
Texas Judicial Branch
Frequently Asked Questions — Records
Where the judiciary directs readers for case records.
Texas Office of Court Administration
Local Rules, Forms, Standing Orders, Citations/Notices and Protective Orders
A useful statewide portal with an explicit official-record limit.
Save the statute, not the search snippet
Texas publishes its Constitution and codified statutes on one official site, organized by named codes and searchable by chapter, article or section. When a section matters, save the code name, section number and the text you actually read.
A code section, a bill and a court filing answer different questions. Label the source before using it so a proposal or allegation is not mistaken for law or a court finding.
Find the court before the case
Texas currently identifies seven kinds of trial courts. They include district courts, the Business Court, constitutional county courts, county courts at law, statutory probate courts, justice courts and municipal courts. A court name that sounds familiar may still be the wrong record holder.
Keep the county, court name, case number, parties, document title and filing date together. Those details are more reliable than a name-only web search and make a clerk request easier to check.
Treat statewide tools as maps
The Texas Judicial Branch says it does not offer one portal for all trial-court case searches. For district and county cases, it points readers to the district or county clerk where the case was filed; other courts should be contacted directly.
The statewide public topics site is useful for selected local rules, forms, standing orders and notices. It also warns that official records of proceedings come from the court maintaining them. A missing portal result is not proof that a record does not exist.
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Updated August 24, 2026. No corrections are recorded.