Clerks may process deferred-disposition requests at the window when the standard conditions are met (full payment of costs and the special expense fee, no deferred dismissal within twelve months, no probation elsewhere), with added conditions for moving violations (valid license; drivers under 25 take a driving safety course) and exclusions (commercial licenses, work zones with workers present, accidents, school buses, crossing guards, speeding 25 mph over or above 80 mph, outstanding warrants) and for alcohol, tobacco, assault and theft complaints; deferral periods are 90 days (180 days for no-insurance cases, with proof maintained throughout), driving-while-license-invalid needs a valid or eligible license, and a request made after the appearance date adds $75 or the balance of the fine to the special expense fee.
Applies to deferred-disposition requests in fine-only cases before the Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1, Aransas County (Judge Vada "Diane" Dupnik). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Justice of the Peace, Pct. 1, Aransas County, Tx. — Judicial Standing Order No. 4 - Deferred Disposition (Revised January 05, 2023). IT IS ORDERED that a court clerk may process requests for Deferred Disposition ("Deferred") from a defendant, or his attorney, at the Court Clerk's Window and may complete the paperwork for the Court's signature if the defendant meets the eligibility requirements set
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-07 from the TOPICs custody file (three text-layer pages read in full). Single current signer (Justice of the Peace Vada Dupnik, signing as Diane Dupnik) — judge-joined. Standard Condition 2 refers to a case "dismissed in Lewisville" — a template artifact of the instrument (the order was adapted from a Lewisville municipal-court model); transcribed as registered.
A standing order of the 97th Judicial District Court sealing the files in cases in which Child Protective Services or the Department of Family and Protective Services appears as petitioner, in the counties comprising the 97th Judicial District.
Dallas County Standing Order Regarding Children, Pets, Property and Conduct of the Parties (Family District Courts General Orders, current edition F2026/05, revised Jan. 31, 2026 — a re-adoption of the same operative text by the current bench: Hon. Kim Brown (254th), Vonda Bailey (255th), Sandre Streete (256th), Ashley Wysocki (301st), Sandra Jackson (302nd), LaDeitra Adkins (303rd), and Andrea D. Plumlee (330th)), as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/11/2023). The order "applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in Dallas County" automatically, without request: child-disruption prohibitions, pet protection, party-conduct restraints, divorce-case property/records/insurance freezes with specific authorizations, mandatory petition attachment, and its TRO-to-temporary-injunction lifecycle.
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