Clerks may process for dismissal, on proof of compliance, expired registration, expired driver's license, failure to change the address or name on a license, and license-restriction violations: a $20 fee ($10 for a medically corrected restriction) plus the tax assessor's stamped renewal receipt and penalty-fee proof, the DPS temporary license, or the corrected license, with compliance within 20 working days of the offense or first appearance; non-conforming proof goes on the No Contest docket at the defendant's request.
Applies to compliance dismissals of the listed Transportation Code offenses 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. 5 – Compliance Dismissals (Revised January 05, 2023). IT IS ORDERED that a Clerk may accept for processing and dismissal, after proof of compliance, the following cases: 1. Display Expired License Plates (registration) (T.C. 502.407(b)) 2. Expired Texas Driver's License (T.C. 521.026) 3. Fail to Change Address/Name on D
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-07 from the TOPICs custody file (two text-layer pages read in full). Single current signer (Justice of the Peace Vada Dupnik, signing as Diane Dupnik) — judge-joined. The expired-license paragraph reads "or no after the first court appearance" in the instrument; 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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