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Vance Handler

Oct 5, 2026

4:50
Now, before when you were running in the primaries, one of the key things that you were really emphasizing on was cleaning up the processor service process because the courts had gotten backed up so bad and there were a myriad of problems involved because those process servers were not doing their
5:11
jobs right.
5:12
That's correct.
5:13
and just to give a little bit of background, what the role of adjust the piece, uh, there's a lot of people that don't really know what adjust the piece does when I'm campaigning and they're asking me questions like, don't you do marriages? I'm like, well, every judge can technically do a marriage on behalf of them just being a judge.
5:33
Um, but the, just the piece throughout Texas is a very high volume court, uh, statistically texas citizens have a higher chance of interacting with a judge from a justice peace court than they do with any other court very very high volume uh justice peace courts have jurisdiction over all evictions uh truancy for the kids who who are missing enough school they handle class c misdemeanors everything from uh traffic tickets to animal cruelty and just a wide variety of criminal cases that don't involve jail time.
6:13
And then small claims that are valued at $20,000 or less.
6:18
Now that is a very big volume just in itself.

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17:18
What should someone walking into your courtroom for the first time expect from Judge Vance Handler? First of all, I'll be

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