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Four standing administrative orders of the Dallas County Probate Courts composed together: AO 2011-3 (eff. Nov. 1, 2011 — a $100 cash bond for guardians of the person only, deposit collected at filing), AO 2014-3 (June 13, 2014 — party name changes by motion and order with certified basis documents, submission default), AO 2021-2 (the Clerk issues notice by posting when a Final Account is filed, with seven prescribed notice elements, first-Monday-after-service hearings, and 10-day return dates), and AO 2021-4 (citation by publication runs in the Daily Commercial Record AND on the OCA public website, posted by the Clerk at no charge with matching return dates, for applications served on or after July 1, 2020).
Texas > Dallas County > all three Statutory Probate Courts — the standing bond, name-change, posting-notice, and publication-citation regimes; the ad-litem deposit order (AO 2023-1) and internet-records order (AO 2013-1) are composed separately
GUARDIAN-OF-PERSON BOND (AO 2011-3, ordered Oct. 2011): "Effective the first (1st) day of November, 2011, in all guardianship proceedings in which only a guardian of the person is appointed, the bond for the guardian of the person shall be a one hundred dollar ($100.00) cash bond. A one hundred dollar ($100.00) deposit for the bond shall be collected by the clerk at the time the case is initially filed." PARTY NAME CHANGE (AO 2014-3, June 13, 2014): "a change in the name of a party in the case shall be accomplished by Motion and Order" — the motion states the legal basis (marriage, divorce, or other), attaches "certified copies of the documents which are the basis of the change," and is filed with a proposed order granting the relief; if the court is satisfied with the evidence, "no hearing will be necessary and the Court will consider the matter by submission," with notice if a hearing is desired. FINAL-ACCOUNT POSTING (AO 2021-2): finding notice by posting is required under Estates Code §§362.005(d) and 1204.105 whenever an account for final settlement is filed, the courts direct that when a Final Account is filed, the County Clerk, on payment of the applicable fee, issues notice by posting — consistent with §§51.053, 54.104, and 1051.053(d) the notice must "(1) state that a Final Account has been filed in the proceeding; (2) be issued in the name of the personal representative or guardian, as the case may be; (3) be addressed and delivered to, and posted and returned by, the appropriate officer; (4) be filed with the County Clerk; (5) state that the Final Account will be heard at the session of the court proceeding where the case is pending on the first Monday after service of the notice is perfected; (6) state a return date occurring after the expiration of at least ten (10) days after posting of the notice; and (7) state that all persons interested in the proceeding may appear at the referenced session and contest the Final Account if they see proper to do so." CITATION BY PUBLICATION (AO 2021-4, Apr. 9, 2021): adopting OCA guidance consistent with Estates Code §51.054 (eff. July 1, 2020) — "if citation by publication is required, such publication shall be made not only in the Daily Commercial Record, but also on the public information Internet website maintained by the Texas Judicial Branch's Office of Court Administration"; the Dallas County Clerk "at no charge, shall cause the citation to be posted on the OCA website and be documented on the proceeding's docket sheet," with the OCA posting reflecting the same return date as the newspaper citation; on the OCA's affidavit that minimum posting requirements are met, the Return of Service is documented on the docket sheet; the OCA-website requirement applies to all applications for which service was not completed before July 1, 2020.
Reviewer note: Four own-site instruments composed by vision as one standing-orders rule (image-only scans rendered and read 2026-08-28; custody shas in the crawl ledger: general-orders/{2011-3,2014-3 party-name-change,2021-2,2021-4} PDFs); signature-era benches recorded per instrument (2011/2014: Thompson/Wilmoth/Miller; 2021: the orders recite the presiding judges); effective date recorded as the latest order's signing; AO 2021-2's opening decretal also references replacing the pro-se litigant information with the courts' Policy (the policy itself composed separately from its Version 13 posting).
Tenth (10th) Court of Appeals — Standing Order No. 1, as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/01/2023). The operative requirements are quoted verbatim; the registered document is the controlling text.
Tenth (10th) Court of Appeals — Standing Order No. 2, as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/01/2023). The operative requirements are quoted verbatim; the registered document is the controlling text.