How the Union Parish Court Calendar Works
For district-court planning, the official source is the Third Judicial District Court calendar. Its Union pages list recurring court blocks. They are not a live public register. The district covers Union and Lincoln Parishes. So match a Union Parish matter to the Union calendar, never a Lincoln schedule. The Clerk also posts a visual calendar page. It is not an interactive case search, though.
The 2026 Union calendar lays out Civil Court, Criminal, Traffic, Juvenile Court, Domestic TRO, Child Support, Drug Court, pretrial, jury-trial, and regular-court blocks. Holidays, conferences, summer school, and open weeks appear too. Treat these labels as scheduling context only. A block says nothing about a charge, a filing, an appearance requirement, or a case result. It never guarantees that a given case will be heard during that window.
Note: Read a calendar block alongside the current docket or court notice, never in place of one.
Union Parish Calendar PDF
For planning court dates in Union Parish, the official Union 2026 color-coded calendar is the best local tool. The court stamped it current on December 8, 2025. Schedules can shift, though. Treat the PDF as a planning aid rather than the final word. Pull the latest case-specific docket entry before you rely on any listed date.
The landing page earns a bookmark too. When the court posts a new annual PDF, that is where it appears first. It also keeps Union and Lincoln materials separated. That helps you grab the right parish schedule instead of the neighboring one.
Visit the Third Judicial District calendar index for the court’s Union schedule materials.
The index supplies calendar documents. For an individual setting, the docket, the notice, and the court office remain the real sources.
Union Parish Court Date Lookups
Start with the newest item issued in the case. A citation, notice, order, or minute entry gives a case or cause number. It often names the venue too. Then make sure the case sits in the right system. Third Judicial District matters follow the Union calendar. Confirm through the Clerk or Judges’ Office. Municipal tickets and Justice of the Peace matters belong with their issuing court instead.
- Write down the case number, citation number, date, and court named in the last notice or docket entry.
- Identify the venue and, for district-court matters, the division if that information is available.
- Open the Union calendar PDF for the relevant year and read the date block using its key.
- Check the current docket or index route for a later setting, reset, continuance, or notice. For civil, family, or probate locating, eClerks can supply a statewide record lead but does not confirm the setting.
- Confirm an uncertain date with the Clerk by phone or at the public counter, or with the Judges’ Office. Contact the issuing municipality or Justice of the Peace office for lower-court matters.
The Clerk’s main number is (318) 368-3055. For settings, the Judges’ Office can be reached at (318) 368-9734. A schedule is no substitute for the court’s direct answer on a live case, so call before you rely on it.
Court Settings: What Each Field Means
A setting is simply a scheduled court event. It might be a block, conference, pretrial, hearing, trial, or another step. The court calendar can point to a court type and a division. Event details come from the current docket or notice. When the case record and calendar disagree, trust the latest verified case-specific event. Then confirm it with the court.
| Date | The day shown in the newest notice, docket entry, or calendar block. |
|---|---|
| Time | The stated appearance time, if the case record or court confirms one. |
| Venue or division | The court and division linked to the case, not merely a calendar abbreviation. |
| Setting type | For example, civil, criminal pretrial, jury-trial block, traffic, or child support. |
| Latest action | A later reset, continuance, notice, or court confirmation that may replace an older date. |
Union Parish posts no standing public Zoom link. Ask the court about the appearance method, the courtroom, interpreter or accommodation needs, and any weather or holiday closure before relying on an old notice. A quick call answers all of it.
Union Parish Judge Key and Blocks
The 2026 Union PDF uses three judge abbreviations. MBC stands for Division A Judge Monique B. Clement. TWR is Division B Judge Thomas W. Rogers, and BEH is Division C Judge Bruce E. Hampton. Each abbreviation marks a scheduled division block. It does not confirm that a case is assigned to that judge or that the matter will be called at any particular time.
- Civil Court
- A scheduled civil-docket day assigned to a division or judge.
- Criminal Pre-Trial
- A pretrial court block. It is not a trial or a disposition by itself.
- Regular Court
- A label used in the PDF. Its precise case-level scope should be confirmed.
- Jury Trial
- A trial block, not confirmation that every case set during that period will be tried.
Use the key to read the calendar. Then use a docket or a direct call to the court to tie the block to one case.
When a Court Date Moves
Court dates move. A reset, pass, continuance, or later notice can leave several dates scattered through the case history. Read the sequence in order. Rely on the latest event that has not been replaced or vacated. When an old date drops off a calendar or index, that alone proves nothing. It does not show dismissal or completion.
The Clerk’s criminal material notes that minutes are released after verification. That can delay entries after a new hearing. For a fresh criminal, civil, or other district-court setting, call the appropriate Clerk desk or the Judges’ Office rather than treating a missing recent entry as final. Union Parish publishes no verified local code list for labels like CONT, RESET, or PASS. So read the full local wording wherever it appears.
Union Parish Drug Court Block
Drug Court shows up on the Union Parish calendar every Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. Judge Clement presides. It is a problem-solving court block, nothing more. The entry does not list participants. It is not a full Union Parish court docket. Seeing a name nowhere on the PDF proves nothing about enrollment or attendance. Program cases often carry access limits and individual instructions that a general schedule never captures.
If you have a specific question, pull the case’s current record. Then call the court office directly. A Tuesday block on a calendar is not an outcome, a status, or proof that anyone appeared.
Missed Settings and What Comes Next
Missed a court date in Union Parish? Act fast and go straight to the source. Start with the court that sent the notice. Third Judicial District cases go through the Clerk or the Judges’ Office, so have the current case number ready and ask whether a new setting or order has been entered. Municipal, traffic, and Justice of the Peace matters work the same way: call whatever court or agency is printed on the citation or notice itself.
Do not rely on an old calendar block. Contact the court office promptly after a missed setting and consider obtaining legal advice about the case. The calendar does not state whether a bench warrant, continuation, dismissal, or other action occurred.
When you call, keep the case number, citation, and latest notice in front of you. With those details, staff can find the right Union Parish docket far faster than they could with a name alone.
Union Parish Calendar Is Not a Register
Think of the Union Parish calendar as a planning tool. It sorts court work by date, court type, division, trial period, holiday, and administrative event. A case docket is something else entirely. It is the chronological record of case activity. Filed events, orders, notices, hearings, and later changes appear there when the public record allows. Use the calendar for court-block context. Use the docket for event history.
The difference matters in practice. A criminal, traffic, juvenile, or civil block tells you the type of work. It does not reveal the specific cases inside it. Juvenile proceedings can carry protected details. A traffic block still points back to the issuing authority. For a case-specific answer, only a notice or a current case entry will do.
The PDF also schedules Domestic TRO at 9:00. Child Support sits at 9:00 before Hearing Officer Christy Walker. Those lines mark scheduled court work, not any party’s active setting. Protective-order and juvenile material can stay limited. That holds even when a broad court category sits on the schedule.
Union Parish Court Confirmation
Here is the confirmation chain for Union Parish court dates. Check the latest notice or docket entry first. Then check the Union calendar for the court block. Then call the right office. For Third Judicial District case activity, the Union Parish Clerk of Court holds the records. The Judges’ Office answers setting questions. The Clerk’s weekday hours run 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Departments sometimes post temporary routing information, so call before you drive over.
Lower-court cases follow the issuing office instead. That may be the mayor’s court, Justice of the Peace, sheriff, or municipality. A statewide eClerks search can surface civil, family, probate, land, marriage, and criminal leads. It is not a live Union setting register. The Court of Appeal, Second Circuit keeps its own appellate docket. It will not confirm a trial-court setting.