{"id":1980,"date":"2021-03-08T15:25:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T21:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2021-03-08T15:30:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T21:30:59","slug":"supreme-court-of-texas-discovery-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/supreme-court-of-texas-discovery-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court of Texas Discovery Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1994 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/iStock-1046559368-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"iStock-1046559368-300x225\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/iStock-1046559368-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/iStock-1046559368-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/iStock-1046559368-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/iStock-1046559368-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/iStock-1046559368-1000x750.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/iStock-1046559368-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/iStock-1046559368.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">On December 23, 2020, the Texas Supreme Court finalized its amendments to the discovery rules set forth in the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. The changes to the discovery rules will undoubtedly impact family law cases filed on or after January 1, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Of the amendments, the mandate that certain pretrial, expert, and initial disclosures be made under Rules 194 and 195, will require the compilation and exchange of documents and information early in the litigation phase and without the necessity of a formal request from the opposing party. While this early exchange of information may lead to resolution and settlement of issues and claims, failure to respond in accordance with the Rules may result in exclusion of evidence as set forth in Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 193.6.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In order to preserve your claims and ability to present evidence, it is imperative that you comply with the amendments to the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. For convenience, please find the amended discovery rules below.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/supreme-court-of-texas-discovery-rules\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Supreme Court of Texas Discovery Rules\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 23, 2020, the Texas Supreme Court finalized its amendments to the discovery rules set forth in the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. The changes to the discovery rules will undoubtedly impact family law cases filed on or after January 1, 2021. Of the amendments, the mandate that certain pretrial, expert, and initial disclosures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":1994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-divorce","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Supreme Court of Texas Discovery Rules &#8212; Texas Divorce Attorney Blog &#8212; March 8, 2021<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On December 23, 2020, the Texas Supreme Court finalized its amendments to the discovery rules set forth in the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. The changes &#8212; March 8, 2021\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/supreme-court-of-texas-discovery-rules\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Supreme Court of Texas Discovery Rules &#8212; Texas Divorce Attorney Blog &#8212; March 8, 2021\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"On December 23, 2020, the Texas Supreme Court finalized its amendments to the discovery rules set forth in the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. The changes &#8212; March 8, 2021\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/iStock-1046559368.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Brandon Joseph\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"30 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Supreme Court of Texas Discovery Rules &#8212; Texas Divorce Attorney Blog &#8212; March 8, 2021","description":"On December 23, 2020, the Texas Supreme Court finalized its amendments to the discovery rules set forth in the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. The changes &#8212; March 8, 2021","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/supreme-court-of-texas-discovery-rules\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Supreme Court of Texas Discovery Rules &#8212; Texas Divorce Attorney Blog &#8212; March 8, 2021","twitter_description":"On December 23, 2020, the Texas Supreme Court finalized its amendments to the discovery rules set forth in the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. The changes &#8212; March 8, 2021","twitter_image":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/iStock-1046559368.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Brandon Joseph","Est. reading time":"30 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/supreme-court-of-texas-discovery-rules\/","url":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/supreme-court-of-texas-discovery-rules\/","name":"Supreme Court of Texas Discovery Rules &#8212; Texas Divorce Attorney Blog &#8212; March 8, 2021","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/supreme-court-of-texas-discovery-rules\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/supreme-court-of-texas-discovery-rules\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/iStock-1046559368.jpg","datePublished":"2021-03-08T21:25:08+00:00","dateModified":"2021-03-08T21:30:59+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/753416bed696938bdb35f66d7f80b999"},"description":"On December 23, 2020, the Texas Supreme Court finalized its amendments to the discovery rules set forth in the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. The changes &#8212; March 8, 2021","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/supreme-court-of-texas-discovery-rules\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/supreme-court-of-texas-discovery-rules\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/supreme-court-of-texas-discovery-rules\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/iStock-1046559368.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/iStock-1046559368.jpg","width":2000,"height":1500,"caption":"Rules and regulations books with official instructions and directions of organization or team. 3d illustration"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/supreme-court-of-texas-discovery-rules\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Supreme Court of Texas Discovery Rules"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/","name":"Texas Divorce Attorney Blog","description":"Published by Texas Collaborative &amp; Family Attorney \u2014 McClure Law Group","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/753416bed696938bdb35f66d7f80b999","name":"Brandon Joseph","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8a389e7ef805fde4413d6275708ea53c67de1ee5195f52cd8a329226706ecc22?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8a389e7ef805fde4413d6275708ea53c67de1ee5195f52cd8a329226706ecc22?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Brandon Joseph"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/brandon-joseph.html"],"url":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/author\/mcclurelaw9\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/iStock-1046559368.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2005,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/2005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}