Texas does not give you a number of days to object to venue. It gives you a position in the order of pleading. The motion to transfer must be filed before or at the same time as any other plea, pleading or motion — with one exception, a special appearance.
File an answer first and say nothing about venue, and the objection is generally gone. Not weakened. Gone.
What has been filed on your behalf so far?
This is the whole question. Venue is not lost by a calendar — it is lost by filing something else first.
Two counties matter: the one you were sued in, and the one you say it belongs in. The gap between them is the motion. The county also decides which court of appeals binds your trial judge, and venue law is a place where the districts do not always read the same.
Some venue provisions are mandatory. If one applies, the analysis is not about convenience or where the witnesses are — the case has to go, and the trial court has no discretion to keep it.
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.
A written agreement fixing the county is not argued the way ordinary venue is argued. It is enforced — and where a trial court refuses to enforce it, mandamus is the settled route rather than an appeal after trial.
An answer filed without a venue motion usually ends the venue objection. It does not end the routes that sit next to it, and two of them are not waivable in the same way. This is the posture where the honest answer is often "not this motion — that one", and it is worth knowing which before you spend anything.
Enforcement of a written agreement about where suit may be brought is analyzed differently from a statutory venue objection. If your contract names a county, that is worth looking at even after an answer.
Whether the court has power over you at all is a separate question from whether the case sits in the right county, and it is not lost by answering in the same way.
Section 15.002(b) transfer runs on convenience and the interests of justice rather than on the venue facts, and it is not the motion the due-order rule governs.
Where the same dispute is pending in more than one county, the practical fix is sometimes neither a transfer nor an appeal.
Send the petition and whatever answer was filed. Telling you the venue motion is gone costs you nothing, and it is better heard now than after you have paid for one.
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.