Waller County District Clerk

The office of the district clerk has been included in every Texas constitution since the Republic. Article 5, Section 9 of the Texas Constitution provides for this office. The district clerk provides support for the district and county court at law (CCL) courts. For Waller County this comprises the 155th and 506th District Courts. The clerk is registrar, recorder, and custodian of all court pleadings, instruments, and papers that are part of any cause of action in any civil or criminal district court (155th & 506th) and in any family case heard in the county court at law. The District Clerk is responsible for filing all felony criminal cases following indictment by the Grand Jury. All civil law suits in the 155th and 506th Judicial District Courts are filed with the district clerk. This office also files all divorces, parent-child relationships, adoptions, name changes, and any other family matters for the County Court at Law. Fees are collected for the filing of new cases and motions and for the issuance of all subpoenas, notices, citations, writs, temporary restraining orders, executions, abstracts of judgment, orders of sale, protective orders, etc. These fees are then distributed to the proper state and local agencies on a monthly basis.