The Texas forms arsenal
Every Texas pleading and instrument, with its citation and required elements — and an honest status. We do not claim a ready template we do not have. The one form that needs no legal judgment, the general denial, you can assemble now; the rest carry their doctrine and route the judgment to counsel.
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Doctrine-encoded (4)
Original petition
Tex. R. Civ. P. 45, 47
- Rule 47 relief statement INCLUDING the damage bracket the rule requires
- discovery-control-plan allegation (190.1)
- parties + jurisdiction/venue grounds
General denial answer
Tex. R. Civ. P. 92
- the general denial puts the plaintiff to proof of every fact not required to be verified
Verified pleas (the Rule 93 list)
Tex. R. Civ. P. 93
- capacity, partnership, execution, sworn-account denial and the rest of 93's enumerated pleas — VERIFIED or waived
902(10) business-records affidavit
Tex. R. Evid. 902(10)
- the rule's OWN form affidavit — custodian, mode of preparation, regular course — emitted verbatim
Planned — doctrine loaded, assembly staged (16)
Special exceptions
Tex. R. Civ. P. 90-91
Rule 91a motion to dismiss
Tex. R. Civ. P. 91a
TCPA motion to dismiss
CPRC ch. 27
MSJ — traditional
Tex. R. Civ. P. 166a (July 2026 ed.)
MSJ — no-evidence
Tex. R. Civ. P. 166a (July 2026 ed.)
Initial disclosures response
Tex. R. Civ. P. 194
Interrogatories / RFP / RFA sets (per level)
Tex. R. Civ. P. 190, 196-198
Rule 202 presuit petition
Tex. R. Civ. P. 202
Protective order / motion to compel
Tex. R. Civ. P. 192.6, 215
Eviction petition (justice court)
Tex. R. Civ. P. 510
Ch. 74 presuit notice + authorization
CPRC §§ 74.051-74.052
74.351 report objection
CPRC § 74.351(a)
Turnover application
CPRC § 31.002
Notice of appeal
Tex. R. App. P. 25.1, 26.1
Mandamus petition
Tex. R. App. P. 52
Charge-conference objection sheet
Tex. R. Civ. P. 272-274
Statement of Inability to Afford Payment of Court Costs or an Appeal Bond
Texas publishes this one statewide, Supreme Court–approved, genuinely fillable civil form — Approved by the Supreme Court of Texas, Misc. Docket No. 22-9090 (bilingual edition). Rule 145's own words: a party who cannot afford costs files “the Statement of Inability to Afford Payment of Court Costs approved by the Supreme Court or another sworn document containing the same information,” a sworn Statement is one “signed before a notary or made under penalty of perjury,” and the clerk “must make the Statement available to any person for free without request.”
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Optional: type caption and contact answers here (kept in this browser only — never sent anywhere) and download the official form with those fields prefilled. The hash is verified before a single field is written. Deliberately never prefilled: income, employment, and public-benefit details; dependents and household information; money, property, and debt schedules; the declaration signature and date (sworn under Rule 145 — notary, or penalty of perjury).
Tex. R. Civ. P. 45 (Definition and System) — what the rule itself requires
- “inches by 11 inches, and signed by the party or his attorney” — Pleadings not filed electronically: in writing, on letter-size paper, signed by the party or attorney.
- “The use of recycled paper is strongly encouraged” — The rule still encourages recycled paper — encouragement, not command.
- “a statement in plain and concise language” — Pleadings state the claim or defense in plain and concise language (fair notice).
- “All pleadings shall be construed so as to do substantial justice” — Construction favors substance — the rule's own closing sentence.
TRCP 45 sets no statewide font floor or margin rule for trial-court filings. These editions use 12-point type and 1-inch margins as PRACTICE defaults — sound, readable, and common — not as rule commands; local rules and standing orders may add real requirements.
The pleading anatomy, from the rules: THE TEXAS DIFFERENCE: a general denial puts the petition's non-sworn matters in issue — the structural opposite of Florida's paragraph-by-paragraph answer. Rule 57 supplies the signature block (An attorney signs in their individual name with State Bar of Texas ID, address, phone, email, fax if available.) and Rule 21a the certificate — “The party or attorney of record shall certify to the court compliance with this rule in writing over signature and on the filed instrument.” And the clock, from Rule 99's own citation text: “file a written answer to the plaintiff's petition on or before 10:00 a.m. on the Monday next after the expiration of twenty days after the date of service.”
TrialVector is software, not a lawyer and not a law firm. These products are not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. (Tex. Gov't Code § 81.101(c).)
These editions follow the statewide scheme — Rule 45's stated form requirements, Rule 57's signature requirements, and Rule 21a's service certificate, each quoted from the rules' own text. Texas counties and individual courts publish REAL additional requirements in local rules and standing orders, and electronic filing carries its own statewide technology standards. Before any filing, verify the county page, your court's local rules, and the assigned judge's published procedures — our county and judge procedure pages, powered by BenchPath (benchpath.ai), are built for exactly that check.