Professional Civil Process Service - A Continued Commitment to Excellence
You can rely on the professionals at Precinct 3 to serve your civil process. All deputies are certified Texas Peace Officers who perform their duties in a respectful and courteous manner. Our staff has more than a century of combined civil process experience, and we offer service in all of Travis County and into the surrounding counties of Caldwell, Bastrop, Burnet, Hays, and Williamson. We will deliver to addresses up to ten miles past the Travis County line; however, if you have a special request, we will do our best to accommodate it. Precinct 3 is dedicated to the timely service of your civil process.
We are on the District Clerk's e-File system, for added service and to better meet your needs to ensure we receive your paper, remember to put "Please use Travis County Constable, Pct. 3" in the Special Instructions/Comments box.
Texas Supreme Court has approved service of process electronically, we have DocuSign one of the methods approved.
If you have any questions or would like an update on service, please call (512) 854-2107. Our Civil Service Line is available Monday – Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Deputies in the Writ Division work in a specialized area of responsibility within the Constable’s Office. Civil processes the deputies work on include:
- Citations by Publications
- Tax Warrant
- Writs of Execution (Issued after final judgment from a court)
- This requires the deputy to go make physical demand for the judgment amount from the defendant. If the defendant is unable to make payment, then the deputy MAY be required to seize non-exempt property and sell it to satisfy the judgment.
- Writ of Attachment
- An order to seize a defendant’s property in order to secure the claim of the plaintiff.
- Writ of Possession
- A judgment that allows the Deputy to take possession of the premises in dispute, and return them to a landlord who prevailed in an eviction suit.
- Writ of Execution
- Issued by a court of competent jurisdiction, commanding a Deputy to levy upon the non-exempt property of a defendant, in satisfaction of a previous judgment rendered by the issuing court.
- Writ of Sequestration
- The temporary seizure or setting aside of specific property to which a party to a suit has a claim of ownership. The object is to allow parties to protect and preserve their property during the suit.
- Orders of Sales (Writ and Property Sales)
- The sales aspect of this department handles a variety of different tasks that allow the Deputy to sell, usually at public auctions, an assortment of real and personal property. Sales can range from tangible items such as land, homes, vehicles or other personal items to non-tangible items such as shares of a stock or interest in a company.
