Tarrant County business disputes, heard in Fort Worth.

Tarrant County civil cases are heard in the district courts and county courts at law in downtown Fort Worth. Appeals go to the Second Court of Appeals in Fort Worth, not the Fifth in Dallas, and a Tarrant County business that files bankruptcy does so in the Fort Worth Division of the Northern District of Texas.

The county takes in Fort Worth, Arlington and part of Grand Prairie, along with the Mid-Cities and the northeast Tarrant suburbs. A suit to recover land or quiet title is filed in the county where the land is, and several of these cities cross a county line.

Texas state courts. No statewide rule on AI is in force. In June 2026 the Supreme Court of Texas preliminarily approved a new Rule 13 under which signing a filing certifies that the signer verified it, including that its citations, quotations and holdings are not fabricated; no final order had issued. The Business Court’s Local Rule 10(c) permits AI but makes the filer independently responsible for every filing. The courts of appeals have no AI rules but sanction fabricated authority under their inherent power, as the Dallas court did in 2025, and Ethics Opinion 705 advises verifying every output, protecting confidences and supervising its use.

Checked against each court’s own rules and orders on 5 November 2026 for John Henry’s talk “AI in Modern Litigation” at the Eastern District of Texas Bankruptcy Bench Bar Conference. Rules change; the full reference, with every order cited, is on the AI in litigation page.