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The Dallas County Probate Courts' Administrative Order 2023-1 (signed Oct. 2, 2023 by the judges of all three statutory probate courts): for applications filed on or after November 1, 2023, the attorney ad litem fee deposit payable at filing is $600 for both Applications for Guardianship and Applications for Determination of Heirship — the third step in the deposit lineage (AO 2011-2 set $400 effective 2012; AO 2021-6 raised it to $500; AO 2023-1 to $600), held by the County Clerk for court-ordered disbursement to the appointed ad litem.
Texas > Dallas County > the Statutory Probate Courts of Dallas County — guardianship and heirship applications in all three courts; the deposit mechanics implement the ad-litem appointment regime of the probate local rules (composed) and the division's independent-administration guidelines (composed)
2023-1 ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER 2023-1 § IN THE PROBATE COURTS OF DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS ORDER REGARDING DEPOSITS OF FEES FOR ATTORNEYS AD LITEM On September 23, 2011, the Probate Courts of Dallas County, pursuant to Administrative Order Number 2011-2, ordered that effective January 1, 2012, in all proceedings requiring the appointment of an attorney ad litem in which a filing fee was paid, a deposit towards the fee for the attorney ad litem was also to be paid at the time of filing. Pursuant to the order, the attorney ad litem deposit was to be held by the County Clerk for disbursement to the attorney ad litem appointed in the case upon order of the court. The deposit for an attorney ad litem at time of filing of an Application for Guardianship and Application for Determination of Heirship was set at $400.00. Pursuant to Administrative Order Number 2021-6, on June 4, 2021, the Probate Courts of Dallas County, Texas, increased the amount required to be deposited for an attorney ad litem at the time of filing of either an Application for Guardianship or an Application for Determination of Heirship to $500.00. The undersigned presiding judges find that, due to economic dynamics, the ad litem deposit set in Administrative Order Number 2021-6 needs to be increased to $600.00. It is therefore ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that, for all applications filed on or after November 1, 2023, the amounts to be deposited towards the fee for the attorney ad litem shall be in the amount stated below: Application for Guardianship: $600.00 Application for Determination of Heirship: $600.00 SO ORDERED the 2 [handwritten] day of October, 2023. [signature] Julia Malveaux, Judge, The Probate Court, Dallas County, Texas [signature] Ingrid Warren, Judge, Probate Court No. 2, Dallas County, Texas [signature] Margaret Jones-Johnson, Judge, Probate Court No. 3, Dallas County, Texas [Running footer: ORDER REGARDING DEPOSITS OF FEES FOR ATTORNEYS AD LITEM 2023-1 — PAGE 1 / PAGE 2]
2023-1 ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER 2023-1 § IN THE PROBATE COURTS OF DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS ORDER REGARDING DEPOSITS OF FEES FOR ATTORNEYS AD LITEM On September 23, 2011, the Probate Courts of Dallas County, pursuant to Administrative Order Number 2011-2, ordered that effective January 1, 2012, in all proceedings requiring the appointment of an attorney ad litem in which a filing fee was paid, a deposit to
Reviewer note: Registered scan composed by vision (pages rendered and read 2026-08-28); signed by Judges Julia Malveaux (The Probate Court), Ingrid Warren (No. 2), and Margaret Jones-Johnson (No. 3) — the current OCA bench; note the courts issued two distinct instruments numbered '2023-1' (this October 2023 deposits order and a January 2023 order ratifying the local rules, the latter attached to registered doc 1080) — recorded faithfully; custody sha256 in the registry ledger (doc 1630). [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 1d041a1f728a..., 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]
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