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The family-seminar mandate of the courts with family jurisdiction: all SAPCR parties must complete a court-approved seminar on the issues confronting children in divorce, custody, and support litigation — within 60 days of the petition/motion filing or notice (whichever first), or before any temporary-orders hearing — filing the original completion certificate with the district clerk; attorneys must facilitate client compliance; failure exposes a party to contempt, stricken pleadings, or TRCP 215 sanctions; good-cause waivers allowed; parties with a certificate from the prior two years are exempt.
Texas > Fannin County > the courts with family-law jurisdiction (the 336th District Court and County Court at Law) — every SAPCR party. Signed by Judges Laurine J. Blake (336th) and then-CCL Judge Joe D. Moss; the order runs with the courts.
"IT IS HEREBY ORDERED BY THE COURTS having jurisdiction of family law cases that all parties to a suit affecting the parent-child relationship are required to successfully complete a court-approved seminar that addresses the issues confronting children that are the subject of divorce, custody, and child support litigation. Each party is responsible for and ordered to make payment of the appropriate fee. Attorneys are ordered to facilitate the completion by their clients of the seminar by notifying clients of the requirement and furnishing such written instructions as may be necessary for the client to comply with this order. The parties are ordered to successfully complete said seminar within sixty (60) days of either (a) the filing of the petition or motion to modify or (b) the receipt of notice of the petition or motion, whichever comes first, or prior to any hearing on temporary orders. Immediately upon completion of the seminar the parties are required to submit the original certificate of completion with the district clerk's office as proof of attendance. Failure to comply with this order may result in court action including contempt, striking of any pleadings, or any of the sanctions listed in Rule 215 of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. For good cause shown, the Court may waive the requirement of the seminar. This order does not apply to any party or parties to this suit who have heretofore successfully completed and received a certificate of completion for said seminar within two (2) years preceding the date of the current pending litigation." Effective the 1st day of January 2011.
Reviewer note: Image-only signed scan read through the vision lane (1 page); the full order quoted verbatim. Edition precedence: supersedes the 2008 parenting-course order signed with the 6th District Court (SO 2008-1, doc 1391 — which the county still posts on its own district-court page, a posting-staleness anomaly recorded) and the 2007 parent-education order (doc 1392); both held as superseded records. Composed benchpath-ajr1-p7.
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.