File with the Colorado County District Clerk at 400 Spring Street, Room 103, in Columbus. Phone (979) 732-2536. That is Texas, not the State of Colorado.

You do not file at the Annex at 318 Spring. That is the County Clerk counter, not the divorce counter.

At filing, Texas requires that a party have been a Texas domiciliary for six months and a resident of the county of filing for 90 days. That 90-day county period is not Colorado's 91-day state residency rule.

The usual no-fault ground in Texas is insupportability, not that the marriage is "irretrievably broken."

Generally the court may not grant a divorce before the 60th day after the petition is filed. That is not Colorado's 90-day waiting period.

Call the District Clerk before you go. Confirm the fee, copies, and any local standing order. Do not use a State of Colorado e-filing portal.

Texas uses conservatorship, not "custody," and a possession order, not "visitation."

The usual starting point is the Standard Possession Order in Chapter 153 of the Texas Family Code. In many rural cases that means the possessory conservator has the child the first, third, and fifth weekends, plus a Thursday period during the school year, with holiday and summer blocks in the statute.

Expanded Standard Possession can stretch Thursday into an overnight when both homes can make the school line. Parents who live close and can cooperate sometimes use a 2-2-5-5 or another equal-time calendar. None of those is automatic. The court looks at the child's best interest, including the drive between Columbus, Eagle Lake, Weimar, and the actual campus.

A geographic restriction should name the school, not just "Colorado County." CISD already reaches part of New Ulm. County line is not school line.

There is no Colorado-state 91-day finish line. In Texas, even an agreed divorce generally cannot be granted before the 60th day after filing.

An uncontested Colorado County case that is fully agreed can often finish not long after that 60-day mark, if the clerk's file is complete and the court has a setting. A contested conservatorship or property case takes longer. Six to nine months is a common range when the parties are still arguing. A trial setting or an appeal can push past a year.

Court time in Columbus is the District Clerk's docket at 400 Spring, not a Colorado-state domestic relations division.

Colorado County is a Texas county seat plus farm-and-highway towns. Privacy is thinner because the same people are at Brookshire Brothers, Schobel's, the CISD line, and Room 103.

Drives matter. Possession that looks fine on paper fails if one house is in Weimar and pickup is on Bowie Street in Columbus, or if a parent works a shift on I-10.

Rural acres and 1-d-1 valuations are not the same as a city house. Inherited land can be separate property and still pick up reimbursement claims.

There is no family-law filing counter in Eagle Lake or Weimar. The petition still goes to Columbus.

My office is in Bellville. The case still files in Colorado County.

Enforcement and modification of a Colorado County divorce or SAPCR generally stay with the court of continuing, exclusive jurisdiction in Colorado County, Texas. You appear at the Colorado County Courthouse, 400 Spring Street in Columbus, not in the State of Colorado.

File through the District Clerk, Room 103. Do not take a family-law enforcement packet to the County Clerk at the Annex, 318 Spring, and do not treat this as a Colorado-state "domestic relations" or probate docket.

If the children now live in another Texas county, venue for a modification can be more technical. Do not assume you refile in Colorado the state, and do not assume you automatically move the file to Bellville because the lawyer's office is there.