Need Some Guidance for Irving Texas COUNTY Court

[Danimal16]

All,

I have been attempting to reach someone at the Irving County Precinct Court. I need to get information on how to serve a California Subpoena on a business headquarted in Irving.

I cannot get through to the court or when I do I get the run around.

Can anyone assist me or give me a contact that can just answer my questions.

Thanks
Dan

[Danimal16]

anyone?

[MRM]

JC Penney by any chance? You won't get an answer to your question from the courthouse because they don't give out legal advice. Your question isn't exactly clear, but I will answer what I think you are asking. If you have a valid California Subpoena regarding a case in litigation in California and you want to take it to Texas and compell a Texas resident/corporation to produce documents or testimony, you need to make the subpoena valid in Texas. You need to check the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure to find the precisely correct way to do it, but the general idea is that you take the California Subpoena to the local Texas Court that has jurisdiction over the person you want to subpoena, and you file a special action in that court. You then go to the signing judge and show him the California subpoena, the Texas court file number, and ask him to sign a Texas subpoena that corresponds to the California subpoena.

If your question is just how to serve someone in Texas when you're in California, the answer is that you just go to your local process serving company (look in the yellow pages) and have them find and serve the corporation. It's their job to figure out who to serve, etc. An alternative, if you know who to serve and where they are located, is to mail the subpoena to the local county sheriff's civil service division (they serve legal papers, not civil service employees) with a check for the service fee, and a request that they serve the subpoena for you. But if you have an out of state subpoena, you need to convert it to a local subpoena for it to be valid.

The best way to do it is to just hire a local Irvine Texas lawyer to handle it. I'm not sure someone who isn't licensed in Texas can file the special action and issue the in-state subpoena. It's a pretty cheap task. It's probably money well spent.

[Neilk]

The town of Irving is in Dallas County, if you are talking about the same Irving, TX where the Dallas Cowboys used to play. I am not sure if that helps. Follow MRM's advice...

[RWebb]

Dan, to add to what MRM said -- if this is a small claims action you might be out of luck. Some states force you to sue for a small claim in the county where the Def. lives.

Good Luck