Nothing in the rules gives you a number of days to move to compel arbitration. What takes the right away is conduct — substantially invoking the judicial process to the other side's detriment. You do not miss this deadline. You spend it, a little at a time, doing ordinary things that felt like defending yourself.
Which means the question is not when. It is what have you already done.
Which of these have you already done in this lawsuit?
Tick everything that applies. These are the things Texas courts actually weigh, and most people have done two or three without knowing they counted.
We hold the published Texas case law — the state courts, the Fifth Circuit, the Texas federal districts and the Texas bankruptcy courts — in our own index and query it directly. No vendor sits between the question and the answer. That is the reason a discrete motion can carry a price on a web page instead of an hourly rate and a hope.
The index does not stop on one day, and there is no single figure for it. Texas state courts through 4 September 2026 · the Fifth Circuit through 29 June 2026 · the Texas federal district and bankruptcy courts through 26 June 2026. Nothing is adding to the Fifth Circuit and the Texas federal district and bankruptcy courts, so a citation to a Fifth Circuit decision handed down after 29 June 2026 is not held here and cannot be checked against the opinion at all. Whether they should be walked the way the state courts are is a decision this practice has not taken; until it does, this page says where the federal half ends rather than leaving you to assume it does not.
Pulled from our index for this mechanism and read by a lawyer before it went on this page. A green check means the decision is on point for this posture. It is not a statement that the case has been shepardized, and it is not a representation about its current precedential standing.
Counts are the number of later decisions in our index that cite the case. A high count means a case has been used, not that it is good law. Nothing on this page is a citator signal and we will not show one until it is produced by reading opinions rather than counting them.
Waiver of the right to compel is not the same as the agreement evaporating. There are usually pieces left, and it is worth knowing which before you spend anything.
A late-added claim, or one brought by a party who has not litigated, may still be sent to arbitration even where the original claims stay.
Texas resolves doubt in favor of arbitration and the burden of proving waiver sits on the party resisting it. On a thin record that matters.
Conduct alone is not enough — the other side must have been harmed by it. A lot of activity with no real prejudice has survived.
Even where the forum is lost, provisions on attorney's fees, limitation periods and available damages can still bind.
Or send nothing but the document and let us find the rest. Dropping the file at the top of this page is the whole first step.
We will read it and tell you what we would do if we represented you on this single task — what we would file, on what ground, and what it would cost to have us do it.