A Fort Bend County probate hearing was rescheduled after counsel told the court several required witnesses did not appear in the virtual waiting room, delaying proof in multiple estates.

The judge paused the docket and asked court staff to confirm witnesses; staff reported that Enzo Nichols, Robert Ridley and Donald Gray (among others) were not present in the virtual waiting room. An attorney on the call apologized and said he had been in touch by text but the witnesses were being disconnected or experiencing technical problems.

The parties agreed to move the contested matters to the court27s calendar the following Monday to allow witnesses to appear in person or to coordinate their logins. The judge asked court staff to notify the parties of the new setting. Counsel also noted scheduling conflicts and that some participants might not be available until later in the morning; the court accommodated those constraints in setting the new date.

No substantive rulings were made in the affected matters at that time; the rescheduling was limited to procedural docket management so the court could obtain testimony necessary to decide the pending probate proofs.