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The 423rd District Court’s standing order for every divorce and SAPCR heard in the court: no contested family case receives a final-hearing setting unless first set for a Rule 166 pretrial/status conference on the uncontested docket (to check parenting-class completion, exchange of sworn inventories and proposed property divisions, and ADR feasibility — waivable case-by-case); attorneys (or pro se parties) must file a Disposition Proposal (Local Rule 7.14) and Financial Information Statements/sworn inventories (Local Rule 7.16); and all contested family cases must attempt ADR (private mediator or the Frank G. Evans Dispute Resolution Services of Bastrop County) with a written certification filed before the final hearing — each requirement waivable case-by-case, and the court may reset a final hearing if the rules are not followed.
Texas > Bastrop County > 423rd District Court (Judge Chris Duggan) — every divorce and SAPCR heard in the court. Supplements the shared 21st/335th/423rd/465th local rules.
[File stamp: Filed [handwritten time], JAN 27 2020, Sarah Loucks, Bastrop County District Clerk] 423RD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF BASTROP COUNTY, TEXAS STANDING ORDER REGARDING FAMILY LAW CASES HEARD IN THE 423RD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF BASTROP COUNTY, TEXAS No party to any family lawsuit heard in the 423rd Judicial District Court of Bastrop County, Texas has requested this Order. Rather, this
Reviewer note: Image-only registration (two pages) read through the vision lane; operative provisions quoted verbatim; signed January 27, 2020 (423rd DC). Composed benchpath-ajr2-quad. Text recomposed 2026-09-08 (Phase 3c): text-layer artifacts corrected (escape leaks, dropped spaces, single-token OCR mis-reads); wording unchanged. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 c22120637c9d..., 2 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.
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