Assume that after the death of your parents you
and your siblings enter into a protracted dispute over the distribution of your late parents' estate, a dispute that requires you to file suit against your siblings in court over the contested will. In what court will the issue likely be settled?
A) County court at law
B) Constitutional county court
C) Statutory probate court
D) Justice of the peace court
E) District court
Q. 2Statutory county courts were created to
A) relieve county judges in urban Texas counties of their judicial duties to allow them to focus on their county administrative duties as presiding officer of the commissioners court.
B) minimize the problems created by the many jurisdictional responsibilities of county courts overlapping those of justice of the peace courts and district courts in Texas.
C) to assure a more efficient administration of justice on the county level since county judges are not required to be attorneys while statutory county court judges are.
D) to provide for the growing need for the administration of wills and estates through the probate function exclusively given to statutory county courts.
E) share felony criminal jurisdiction with district courts of jurisdiction, thus allowing district judges to handle more civil cases.
Q. 3Statutory county courts are also known as
A) constitutional county courts. B) county courts at law. C) intermediate trial courts. D) probate courts. E) state trial courts.
Q. 4A new trial, necessary for an appeal from a court that is not a court of record, is called a(n)
A) appellate trial. B) trial upon remand. C) trial de novo. D) civil trial. E) adversarial trial.
Q. 5How many constitutional county courts exist in Texas?
A) 14 B) 18 C) 231 D) 254 E) 822
Q. 6The local county trial court for minor criminal offenses (less serious misdemeanors) and civil suits involving small claims is the
A) justice of the peace court. B) municipal court. C) statutory county court. D) superior court. E) district court.
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