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328th District Court Guidelines for Appointments of Attorneys Ad Litem, Guardians Ad Litem, Mediators, and Guardians — Fort Bend County. The operative requirements are quoted verbatim from the governing document (registered/posted 2019-07-19 (posted; supplements the appointments regime)); the document in custody is the controlling text.
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Minimum requirements for qualification: ATTORNEYS AD LITEM — at least 50% of the annual practice related to family law; 8 hours of continuing legal education in family law and 3 hours in ethics for the last reporting year; prior attendance at the amicus/ad litem training seminar presented by the Fort Bend Family Bar or the Fort Bend County Bar Association (or viewing of the recorded presentation); and an office or residence in Fort Bend County. GUARDIANS AD LITEM and GUARDIANS — prior attendance at (or viewing of) the amicus/ad litem training seminar. MEDIATORS — completion of the requirements of CPRC § 154.052; 3 hours of ADR continuing legal education for the last reporting year; and for CPS appointments, 3 hours of CLE related to Texas Family Code Chapter 262 or prior CPS mediation training and experience. Attorneys seeking appointments must attach their State Bar of Texas MCLE transcript; mediators attach their mediation-course completion certificates.
Reviewer note: Operative provisions transcribed verbatim by vision-read of the posted scanned document (rasterized at 170 dpi and read this session); the posted document (sha256 285fa919863e…) is the controlling text.
Establishes a Traffic Violations Bureau within the Clerk of the County Court under Fla. R. Traf. Ct. 6.100(a) (Burnstein, C.J., Nov. 1, 1988).
Approves the National Highway Safety Council Defensive Driving course as a school to which traffic courts may require attendance (Fla. R. Traf. Ct. 6.110(a)).
Designates the D.W.I. Counterattack School (Broward County Commission on Alcoholism) as an approved school for court-ordered attendance (Fla. R. Traf. Ct. 6.110(a)).
Where a motion to compel alleges complete failure to respond to discovery with no extension requested, a county judge may enter an EX PARTE order compelling compliance within 10 days — the source of the "ten (10) days… failing which sanctions may be imposed" language quoted across Broward county-civil division procedures.