304th District Court — Amended Policies and Procedures (Hon.… — Dallas County, TX · BenchPath

304th District Court — Amended Policies and Procedures (Hon. Andrea Martin, Feb. 5, 2015)

High confidence· verified September 21, 2026Judge Preferences304th District Court, Amended Policies and Procedures (Hon. Andrea Martin) (Feb. 5, 2015)

Summary

The 304th District Court's (juvenile) amended policies (Hon. Andrea Martin, Feb. 5, 2015): CPS scheduling orders in every case, the no-continuances-without-exigency rule, 30-day final-order entry, mandatory mediation in all CPS cases, indigence review with 24-hour attorney-ad-litem contact and 72-hour responsive-pleading duties, ordered §262.102/§262.109 parental notices, CASA assignment at filing, jury elections by the first permanency hearing, certificate-of-conference enforcement, timed dockets with written exhibit lists, Wednesday/Thursday prove-up windows, and Certificate-of-Court attorney billing.

Applies to

Texas > Dallas County > 304th District Court (juvenile; Hon. Andrea Martin — the 2015 instrument's signing judge remains the OCA bench) — CPS-docket sections apply to all CPS cases, the balance to all cases before the court

Source of truth

Official source: Dallas County Juvenile District Courts — dallascounty.org (county site tree)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 27, 2026
Effective date: February 5, 2015
Last verified: September 21, 2026benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p11-2026-09-21

Reviewer note: Own-site instrument composed verbatim (custody sha in the crawl ledger); dated Feb. 5, 2015 and still the court's posted policies — age noted, currency is the posting's own claim; the signing 'Judge Martin' matches the current OCA bench (Andrea G. Martin); the court's CPS Scheduling Order and Discovery Control Plan template (SchedulingOrderfor304th.pdf, image-only, vision-read) is composed in as the fixed-clock layer; the joint 304th/305th standing orders (detention closure; sibling/death-case transfers) are composed separately. [RECOMPOSED 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P7, digital-layer lane): the full text of the registered file (sha256 51ea19214211..., 3 pages) replaces the earlier 4,579-character abstract. Method: pypdfium2 text layer reflowed page-aware, cross-checked word-by-word against PyMuPDF (0 substantive difference(s), 0 page-furniture), owner-corpus candidate sentences 100% (21/21) matched, 0 running header/footer line(s) removed, no U+FFFD/U+FFFE/form-feed debris. NOT yet checked page by page against the render, so confidence is medium with an open re-verification task; flip to high when a reviewer has read every page against the PDF. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p7-2026-09-21] [BY-EYE CHECK 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P11): every page of the registered file (sha256 51ea19214211..., 3 page(s)) read against the rendered PDF; file-stamp, caption and signature-block defects of the text layer corrected from the render; confidence lifted to high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p11-2026-09-21]