The Angelina County standing order governing substitute or alternative service of process — the showing a plaintiff must make (due diligence) and the manner in which alternative service may be authorized.
Texas > Angelina County > civil cases requiring alternative service.
[File stamp: FILED AT 9:58 A M [handwritten], JUL 17 2025, Angelina County, TX, DEPUTY, with a deputy's signature] CAUSE NO. ______ EXPARTE: THE STATE OF TEXAS § IN THE 159th / 217TH DISTRICT COURTS OF ANGELINA COUNTY, TEXAS ORDER GRANTING STATE'S MOTION FOR ALTERNATIVE SERVICE (ARTICLE 59 TEXAS CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CASES) On the 16th [handwritten] day of July [handwritten], 2025 [handwritten], the State's Motion for Alternative Service was heard by the Court. After considering the motion and the sworn affidavit of Petitioner, the Court finds that the motion should be GRANTED. THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the following persons, if 18 years of age or older, are authorized to serve process or citations in civil cases filed by the State of Texas, by and through the District Attorney of Angelina County, if such cases seek asset seizure or forfeiture under Chapter 59 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure. The following persons must not be a party to or have an interest in the outcome of the individual suit, and must meet the following requirements for authorization to serve citations in these cases: 1. Serve as a law enforcement officer for the police departments of the cities of Lufkin, Diboll, Huntington, or for the Texas Department of Public Safety; 2. Serve as a law enforcement officer or jailer employed by the Angelina County Sheriff's Department; 3. Serve as an Investigator with the District or County Attorney's Office; 4. Serve as a Court Bailiff or Security Officer for the Angelina County District Courts, County Courts, County-Court-at Law Courts, or Justice of the Peace Courts. SIGNED this 17 [handwritten] day of July [handwritten], 2025 [handwritten]. [signature] TODD KASSAW, DISTRICT JUDGE, 159TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, ANGELINA COUNTY, TEXAS [signature] ROBERT K. INSELMANN, DISTRICT JUDGE, 217TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, ANGELINA COUNTY, TEXAS
[File stamp: FILED AT 9:58 A M [handwritten], JUL 17 2025, Angelina County, TX, DEPUTY, with a deputy's signature] CAUSE NO. ______ EXPARTE: THE STATE OF TEXAS § IN THE 159th / 217TH DISTRICT COURTS OF ANGELINA COUNTY, TEXAS ORDER GRANTING STATE'S MOTION FOR ALTERNATIVE SERVICE (ARTICLE 59 TEXAS CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CASES) On the 16th [handwritten] day of July [handwritten], 2025 [handwritte
Reviewer note: AJR-2 East cohort (Angelina/Orange/Liberty/Chambers/Jasper/Newton). Source instrument read via text/vision lane; classified RULE under the records-vs-rules doctrine. Composed benchpath-ajr2-east. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 6be00397ab0f..., 1 page(s), image-only scan; the OCR layer used as a typing base and corrected word by word from the page) read against the rendered file; verbatim, source typos kept, stamps/signatures bracketed; the earlier abstract replaced by the full instrument; confidence high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21]
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.