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Miscellaneous order of the 64th and 242nd District Courts for Castro, Hale and Swisher Counties, entered under Local Rule 4.04: all parties in suits involving the parent-child relationship under Subtitle B of Title 5 of the Family Code (including divorces joined with such suits, excluding uncontested termination and adoption suits) must attend and successfully complete a children's interest seminar before the final hearing unless the court gives a written waiver, and parties with children aged 6 through 17 must have the children attend and complete a seminar designed to help them cope with the suit; the clerks give each attorney or pro se party, when initial pleadings are filed, a copy of the order and an information sheet on the seminars.
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IN THE 64TH AND 242ND DISTRICT COURTS OF CASTRO, HALE, SWISHER COUNTIES, TEXAS [File stamp: FILED, 2003 MAY 22 A 10: 12, BRENDA HUD..., COUNTY & DISTRICT CLERK, SWISHER COUNTY, TEXAS, [signature] DEPUTY; printed sideways at the end of the caption; the last letters of the clerk's name are too faint to read] MISCELLANEOUS ORDER Pursuant to Local Rule 4.04, all parties in any suit involving the parent-child relationship brought under Subtitle B of Title 5, Texas Family Code, including but not limited to suits for divorce joined with parent-child relationship suits, but excluding uncontested suits for termination and adoption, shall attend and successfully complete a children’s interest seminar prior to the final hearing unless written waiver is obtained from the Court. Further, parties in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship with children ages of 6 through 17 shall have their children attend and successfully complete a seminar that is designed to aid children to cope with the effects of such a suit. The Clerks of the Court shall provide to each attorney or pro se party upon the filing of their initial pleadings in such a suit, a copy of this Order and an informational sheet concerning such seminars. Signed this 21st day of May, 2003. [signature] Robert W. Kinkaid, Jr. Judge Presiding 64th District Court [signature] Ed Self Judge Presiding 242nd District Court [The registered file continues (page 2) with the Swisher County information sheet for the "For Kids Sake" (adults) and "Sandcastles" (children) seminars - the Tulia location, fees and class dates from October 11, 2025 to March 14, 2026 - which also states that respondents and children who live more than 100 miles from Swisher County may substitute a similar family seminar offered online or in person and mail the certificate of completion to the Swisher County & District Clerk; not reproduced.]
IN THE 64TH AND 242ND DISTRICT COURTS OF CASTRO, HALE, SWISHER COUNTIES, TEXAS [File stamp: FILED, 2003 MAY 22 A 10: 12, BRENDA HUD..., COUNTY & DISTRICT CLERK, SWISHER COUNTY, TEXAS, [signature] DEPUTY; printed sideways at the end of the caption; the last letters of the clerk's name are too faint to read] MISCELLANEOUS ORDER Pursuant to Local Rule 4.04, all parties in any suit involving the pa
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-25 (AJR-9 Ninth Region build) from BenchPath custody probe/topics9/2829.pdf (application/pdf, 144834 bytes, sha256 2f426e1151d972ff7d5ce11a556a6bcd31a68f92043b1723e7441f2d3831cafb; 2 pages) - the TOPICs-registered document: transcribed from the rendered pages of the scanned PDF (the machine OCR layer was not relied on), every page read against the render; signature, seal and file-stamp blocks bracketed. Sibling row: the instrument names Castro County; its registration is TOPICs 2829 (Swisher County). Registered by Swisher County on February 20, 2026 with the county's current seminar information sheet (class dates October 11, 2025 to March 14, 2026), which is described in an editorial note rather than reproduced. The order names Castro, Hale and Swisher Counties; its Castro and Hale rows cite the Swisher registration.
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.