How to Search the Loving County Court Docket
Know your case type first. That decides where a Loving County court docket lives. Felonies and general-jurisdiction matters belong to the 143rd Judicial District Court. The constitutional Loving County Court handles the county-level categories. Criminal, civil, probate, and juvenile matters are listed in the official directory. Justice Court is where Class C criminal cases, traffic citations, and small claims land. Loving County has no single local portal covering every court and every document. The split matters.
For a statewide online start, try the re:SearchTX public search. Just remember that a missing result there does not mean the file is missing. The current County and District Clerk site posts court pages and docket links. It also offers a way to reach the clerk. When online results come up empty, call the clerk before concluding no case exists.
- Decide whether the matter belongs in District Court, County Court, or Justice Court.
- Gather the full party name, case number, and an approximate filing or setting date.
- Check re:SearchTX and the appropriate local court page for a matching docket lead.
- Compare the court, case number, filing data, and hearing information before relying on a result.
- Ask the clerk for a plain or certified copy when the online record is not enough.
Loving County Has Three Court Paths
Loving County runs on three separate court paths despite its tiny population. The 143rd Judicial District covers Loving, Reeves, and Ward counties. Its central administrative office sits in Monahans. A Loving County office is listed in Mentone. So a setting tied to a Loving case may actually point to another county. The venue may be one announced for that date. Call the district administrator to confirm where a party must appear.
County Court keeps its own local calendar. The official page describes a second-Wednesday pattern. It still tells readers to phone the clerk for the next real date. Justice Court posts traffic, Class C criminal, and civil forms under its own office. None of these overlap. Each one leads to a different docket and a different custodian.
| Court | Typical matters | Best first contact |
|---|---|---|
| 143rd Judicial District Court | Felonies and general civil jurisdiction | District Clerk or district administrator |
| Loving County Court | County criminal, civil, probate, and juvenile categories | County Clerk |
| Justice Court | Traffic, Class C cases, and small claims | Justice Court clerk |
What a Court Docket Shows
A docket tracks case activity and scheduling. It is not always the full court file. The local district pretrial sample labels every key field. It lists the court, the date, the case number, and the party or defendant. Attorney roles, bond details, and the action or setting appear as well. The posted County Court sample works much the same way as a dated list. Those fields will identify a case and its next procedural step. They do not promise everything. Not every pleading, exhibit, sealed item, or final judgment shows up on the public page.
| Case number | The best key for separating similar names and carrying a search from trial court to appeal. |
|---|---|
| Party information | Names or roles used to identify the listed matter, subject to privacy limits. |
| Action or setting | A scheduled event or current procedural entry, not necessarily a final outcome. |
| Attorney and bond fields | Local criminal lists may use labels such as CPL, DEF, BND, and Bond Type. |
| Disposition | A result only when the court has entered one; a pretrial label is not a disposition. |
Loving County Docket PDF Snapshots
A posted PDF captures what was scheduled at the moment the file was made. Settings can later be reset, replaced, or supplemented. The district sample is a pretrial list dated March 21, 2025. The county sample is a two-page list dated April 16, 2025. Neither one works as a live calendar in 2026. Cite the source date. Check the current court page before you plan an appearance.
For current docket and schedule material, start with the official 143rd District Court page. The County Court page is the parallel county-level route. A PDF can hand you a case-number lead. The court or clerk stays the authority on any changed time, courtroom, or venue.
Calendar caution: A docket date, a jury week, and a grand-jury date describe different events. Confirm which one applies before traveling.
Which Courts Keep Dockets
Two clerks hold the Loving County court docket. The District Clerk keeps district-court filings, and the County Clerk serves the constitutional County Court. Here the two roles sit under one combined County and District Clerk office. Even so, the case jurisdiction stays separate, so name the right court in any request. Justice Court keeps its own records too. Traffic tickets, Class C matters, and small claims live there. A county-clerk docket search misses a JP case.
Appeals open a second stream. The Eighth Court of Appeals hears Loving County cases. The Texas appellate search lets you filter by trial-court county and trial-court case number. Federal filings run through PACER and CM/ECF for the Western District of Texas, Pecos Division. Remember one thing. An appellate or federal docket is its own record. It is not a copy of the local trial file, even for the very same dispute.
Start With the Loving County Court
Start statewide with re:SearchTX. It offers Cases, Filings, Text, and Hearings views. Its official guide walks through the filters and sorting. That breadth makes it a strong first stop for Texas docket discovery. Even so, what you actually see depends on local integration, the record type, and a security matrix. Texas has pushed its district and county clerks toward connected systems. That push does not mean every Loving County criminal or local record is searchable today. Treat it as a discovery tool, not a promise of full coverage.
One warning about the LovingTXRecorder portal. People often mistake it for a court docket search. It is not. The portal handles recorded documents, such as land and related instruments. Its historical date range describes recording scope. That scope says nothing about the age or completeness of court dockets. If a lawsuit touches a deed or lien, that instrument may show in the recording index. The case itself belongs in the court channels. Search the Loving County docket where the case was filed, not in the recorder.
Two systems: A recording index tracks filed property instruments. A court docket tracks events and filings in a case. Finding one does not guarantee the other.
Finding Court Dates and Settings
Start with the newest official docket or calendar, then verify with the right office. County Court tends to sit on the second Wednesday. Treat that as a planning hint, not a promise that your matter will be heard. The district schedule marks jury weeks and grand-jury dates. Individual hearings can carry their own settings. The Loving County court calendar walks through comparing these sources and handling a reset.
Justice Court calls for extra caution. Its current page lists the Loving County Community Center at 104 West Barstow Avenue. It keeps courthouse direction text, and an older form mentions the Hopper Annex. Those descriptions do not agree with each other. Call the JP at 432-286-9544 before you appear. That matters most for a trial, mediation, or citation deadline. A form that offers a remote-appearance request does not guarantee that remote appearance itself.
Loving County Court Docket Requests
The current clerk listing places the County and District Clerk at 100 Bell Avenue, Mentone, Texas 79754, with mail going to PO Box 194. The phone is 432-309-9500 extension 6. Hours run Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., with Friday hours from 8 a.m. to noon. One older county page gives the address as 100 Bell Street instead, so confirm the street label before making the trip and lean on the current contact as your anchor.
A clear docket request saves time. Include:
- The court name and county
- The case number, if known
- Full names or the estate name
- An approximate filing or hearing date
- The exact document or date range requested
- Whether a plain or certified copy is needed
The clerk publishes no generic certified-copy request form and no complete civil and criminal fee sheet. Ask for a quote on the current cost, and confirm the payment method, before sending any funds.
Public Access to Dockets
Texas separates court case records from judicial administrative records. The Texas Public Information Act generally does not reach adjudicative case files the way it covers many executive-branch records. Under the Texas Judicial Branch Open Records Policy, case-record requests go to the court clerk. They can also follow the court's own procedure. Rule 12 supplies the access framework for many judicial records outside the case-file context.
Public access still has limits. A document can be sealed, redacted, confidential by law, or withheld when release would interfere with a judicial function. Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 76a governs sealing. Rule 21c covers sensitive data in filings. Family Code Chapter 58 protects juvenile information, and Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 55A deals with expunction. So a blank search result may reflect restricted access, delayed integration, or the wrong custodian rather than no record at all.
Access rule: Describe a restricted result as not publicly viewable through the channel checked. The clerk or court decides what may lawfully be released.
Verify Loving County Court Locations
Mentone is the county seat and the only named community. Even so, it is not an incorporated city and has no municipal court. Court business can still happen at more than one spot. The courthouse and clerk tie to Bell Street or Bell Avenue. Justice Court materials give three different location descriptions across current and older sources. The 143rd District Court spans multiple counties. It runs its ordinary administration from Monahans, and it lists a Loving office in Mentone.
Check the official Loving County Justice Court page and follow up with a direct call. For district settings, contact the district administrator. For County Court, go through the clerk. Just because a case arose in Loving County does not mean the familiar courthouse address controls its hearing.
The Clerk and Docket Records
For the district and constitutional county courts, the County and District Clerk is the main local records contact. The staff can tell you whether they hold the case you want, describe the copy types available, and quote a current fee. What they cannot do is turn the real-property portal into a court-case search or promise that statewide coverage is complete.
Loving County and District Clerk
100 Bell Avenue
Mentone, TX 79754
Mail: PO Box 194
432-309-9500 ext. 6
The clerk's April 1, 2025 fee schedule covers recording, copies, certification, data, and related charges, but it states that civil, criminal, and other case fees sit outside that schedule. That warning matters. Plenty of people read a property-recording price as the cost of a court filing or case copy, and that mistake costs real money in Loving County.
Official Loving County Court Sources
Sort your bookmarks by function. The clerk site serves district and county dockets. It also carries contact details and the current schedule link. Use re:SearchTX for statewide discovery. When a case reaches the Eighth Court of Appeals, use the state appellate search instead. Federal civil and criminal matters arising in Loving County fall to the Western District of Texas, Pecos Division. That court runs on PACER rather than a Texas county system.
The clerk's official landing screen displays the office identity and its public-access role. View the Loving County and District Clerk source before trusting a saved local bookmark.
The image confirms the clerk's current web presence. It does not replace a direct check on a setting, fee, or document status.
Loving County Court Docket Scale
A tiny population does not mean a light Justice Court docket here. The January 2026 OCA report recorded 411 traffic cases on the docket, and the February report recorded 585. Read those as monthly category counts, not lists of people or live case totals.
Cite each report by its month and category. Never read an individual outcome out of aggregate Loving County court docket numbers. The October 2024 report splits its figures into new, reactivated, disposed, warrant, indigency, and collection fields. That breakdown matters. One number simply cannot stand for the whole docket.
A pending count may hold cases filed in an earlier month, while a disposed count only reflects activity inside the report period. Collections describe funds in the aggregate, not what any named person owes. For a citation you can rely on, the Justice Court case entry plus clerk confirmation remain the right sources.
Court Dockets by City in Loving County
Loving County has no incorporated city, so the Cities column stays empty. Mentone is the county seat, but it is only a census-designated, unincorporated place. No municipal court exists there, and no separate city docket does either.
That leaves a simple map for searches. Traffic tickets and other Class C matters belong in the Justice Court for the county. County-level and district cases each sit on their own court pages. Anyone chasing a Mentone court docket should read the court named on the citation or notice. Skip the hunt for a city clerk. There is none.
Map and Directions to the Loving County Courthouse
143rd Judicial District Court and Loving County Court records are kept by the Loving County and District Clerk at the Loving County Courthouse, 100 Bell Avenue, in Mentone. The 1935 courthouse is the historic downtown building bounded by Pecos, Collins, Dallas, and State Highway 302. Justice Court hearings are currently held at the separate Loving County Community Center, 104 West Barstow Avenue, not the courthouse, so call the JP office at 432-286-9544 to confirm the location before appearing there.
Loving County Courthouse
100 Bell Avenue
Mentone, TX 79754
432-309-9500 ext. 6
Monday through Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Friday, 8:00 a.m. to noon.
The county's legacy page calls this same building 100 Bell Street rather than 100 Bell Avenue, and no separate courthouse parking or security policy is published, so calling the clerk before the trip is the safest way to confirm the address and the Friday noon closing.