April 3, 2026 Case Law Update Texas Court of Appeals CROSSOVER: Rule 91a Limits ‘Backdoor Summary Judgment’: Pleading TTCA Motor-Vehicle Waiver Survives Early Dismissal
April 3, 2026 Case Law Update Texas Court of Appeals CROSSOVER: Capital Murder Appeal Offers Family-Law Crossover: Defendant’s Self-Serving Police Interview Kept Out as Hearsay Despite Excited-Utterance/Mental-State Claims
April 3, 2026 Case Law Update Texas Court of Appeals CROSSOVER: Mandamus Win for Family-Law Litigants: Oral/Docket ‘New Trial’ Doesn’t Extend Plenary Power—Late Signed New-Trial Order Is Void
April 3, 2026 Case Law Update Texas Court of Appeals CROSSOVER: Probate Heirship Fight Turns on Informal Marriage Proof—Judicial Notice Limits and Sufficiency Standards Matter in Family Property Cases
April 3, 2026 Case Law Update Texas Court of Appeals CROSSOVER: Texas 14th COA: No Offer of Proof, No Appeal—How to Preserve Excluded Business/Medical Records in Family Trials
April 3, 2026 Case Law Update Texas Court of Appeals CROSSOVER: Texas 14th Court: TMLA Expert-Qualification Attacks Are Waived If Not Objected to Within 21 Days—‘Unqualified’ Report Still Counts as a Report
April 3, 2026 Case Law Update Texas Court of Appeals CROSSOVER: TTCA Election-of-Remedies Can Knock Out a City-Employee Respondent in Family-Law Collision/Abuse-Related Civil Claims
March 27, 2026 Case Law Update Supreme Court of Texas CROSSOVER: Texas Supreme Court: Excluding a Substitute Expert for Job-Change Unavailability Can Be Abuse of Discretion Under Rule 193.6 (Good Cause Isn’t ‘Impossible’).
March 27, 2026 Case Law Update Texas Court of Appeals First Court of Appeals Denies Mandamus Over Recusal Ruling and Trial Reset in Harris County Divorce Case
March 27, 2026 Case Law Update Texas Court of Appeals Fourth Court Affirms No-Access Divorce Decree After Father Waives Jury-Charge Complaints
