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Judge Bonnie Robison's standing order SO-2017-00003 (signed Dec. 12, 2017, replacing SO-2015-00002): every attorney filing an application or counter-application for guardianship attaches to the initial pleading a copy of the State Bar letter acknowledging completion of the four-hour training required by Estates Code § 1054.201 (the 'Attorney Ad Litem Certificate'); once attached it need not accompany amended pleadings, but on or before the certificate's expiration the attorney supplements the application and files an updated certificate in every case in which the attorney appears for a guardianship applicant; non-compliance results in a compliance-docket setting or status conference.
Texas > Denton County > Probate Courts Nos. 1 and 2 (posted under both courts' Standing Orders) — attorneys filing applications or counter-applications for guardianship.
"1. The Court requires all attorneys filing Applications for Guardianship and Counter-Applications for Guardianship ('Filing Attorneys') to attach to their initial pleading in each case a copy of the letter the attorney received from the State Bar of Texas acknowledging completion of the four-hour training requirement mandated by Texas Estates Code §1054.201, hereinafter referred to as 'Attorney Ad Litem Certificate'. 2. After the Filing Attorney's initial Application for Guardianship has been filed with the proper Attorney Ad Litem Certificate letter attached, it is not necessary for the Filing Attorney to attach the Attorney Ad Litem Certificate to amended applications or other pleadings. On or before the expiration of the Filing Attorney's Ad Litem Certificate, the Filing Attorney shall supplement the Application for Guardianship and file with the Denton County Clerk an updated and current Attorney Ad Litem Certificate in each case in which the Filing Attorney has appeared as counsel for an Applicant for guardianship. 3. Failure to comply with this Order will result in the Probate Court Administrator setting the matter on a Compliance Docket and/or a Status Conference Hearing. 4. This Order shall become effective on December 12, 2017, and replaces the prior Standing Order Regarding Ad Litem Certificates, in Cause No. SO-2015-00002. IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that in all Applications for Guardianship and Counter-Applications for Guardianship cases filed on or after September 1, 2015, the Filing Attorney shall attach to the Application and file with the Denton County Clerk a current Attorney Ad Litem Certificate. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that on or before the expiration of the Filing Attorney's Ad Litem Certificate, the Filing Attorney shall file with the Denton County Clerk an updated and current Attorney Ad Litem Certificate in each case in which the Filing Attorney has appeared as counsel for an Applicant for Guardianship."
"1. The Court requires all attorneys filing Applications for Guardianship and Counter-Applications for Guardianship ('Filing Attorneys') to attach to their initial pleading in each case a copy of the letter the attorney received from the State Bar of Texas acknowledging completion of the four-hour training requirement mandated by Texas Estates Code §1054.201, hereinafter referred to as 'Attorney A
Reviewer note: Own-site document (image-only, 1 p) read through the pypdfium2 vision lane 2026-09-06 and transcribed verbatim; signed by former Judge Bonnie Robison (historical authorship) and still posted under the current courts' standing orders → county-level probate rule (court-less). Composed benchpath-ajr8-denton (own-site lane).
Dallas County Standing Order Regarding Children, Pets, Property and Conduct of the Parties (Family District Courts General Orders, current edition F2026/05, revised Jan. 31, 2026 — a re-adoption of the same operative text by the current bench: Hon. Kim Brown (254th), Vonda Bailey (255th), Sandre Streete (256th), Ashley Wysocki (301st), Sandra Jackson (302nd), LaDeitra Adkins (303rd), and Andrea D. Plumlee (330th)), as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/11/2023). The order "applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in Dallas County" automatically, without request: child-disruption prohibitions, pet protection, party-conduct restraints, divorce-case property/records/insurance freezes with specific authorizations, mandatory petition attachment, and its TRO-to-temporary-injunction lifecycle.
General Order of the Civil District Courts sitting in Dallas County (signed April 6, 2020 by the thirteen civil presiding judges), as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 10/07/2023): the 25-page limit on motions and briefs with formatting floors — the instrument the individual courts' policies cite as the amended page-limit rule.