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The 442nd District Court's requirements in child-protection (DFPS) cases: assistant district attorneys provide proposed orders for statutory hearings to all counsel by the Monday before the hearing with the next hearing date filled in; counsel review orders with clients beforehand; since May 1, 2022 all agreed statutory orders are proved up in person by all attorneys and parties — no passes, submissions or Zoom; mediation is mandatory unless good cause is timely shown, scheduled with the Denton County Alternative Dispute Resolution Program (DCAP) before the status hearing and completed at least 30 days before final trial, on a Friday at DCAP only, with all attorneys and parties ordered to attend; the court's CPS Scheduling Order is entered at the status hearing without edits; attorneys ad litem e-mail the court administrator (copying all counsel, the caseworker and CASA) a date- and time-stamped selfie with the child by 3 p.m. the day before each statutory hearing.
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"For ALL Attorneys AND Parties on agreed statutory hearings — 1. ADAs shall provide the Proposed Orders for statutory hearings to ALL Counsel no later than the Monday before the hearing with the date of the next hearing filled in. 2. Counsel must make every attempt to review the order with their clients PRIOR to the day of the statutory hearing. 3. Please be advised that starting May 1, 2022, ALL
Reviewer note: Text-layer registration (2 pp) read in full 2026-09-06; the requirements quoted verbatim, the app instructions summarized. Composed benchpath-ajr8-denton. County-site receipt(s) in custody 2026-09-06: https://www.dentoncounty.gov/DocumentCenter/View/8666/442ND-DISTRICT-COURT-CPS-REQUIREMENTS-2024-PDF (identical edition). [RECOMPOSED 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P7, digital-layer lane): the full text of the registered file (sha256 0ddd3f84c7ef..., 2 pages) replaces the earlier 1,904-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% (10/10) 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 0ddd3f84c7ef..., 2 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]
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