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Standing Order Regarding Mandatory Disclosures in Tax Cases — Fort Bend County. The operative requirements are quoted verbatim from the governing document (registered/posted 12/19/2024); the document in custody is the controlling text.
Texas > Fort Bend County > 240th, 268th, 400th, 434th, 458th District Courts (tax)
IN THE 240TH DISTRICT COURT, 268TH DISTRICT COURT, 400TH DISTRICT COURT, 434TH DISTRICT COURT, AND 458TH DISTRICT COURT FOR FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS STANDING ORDER REGARDING MANDATORY DISCLOSURES IN TAX CASES Rule 194.1(a) of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure imposes a duty on a party to disclose to the other parties the information or material described in Rules 194.2, 194.3, and 194.4, except as otherwise agreed by the parties or ordered by the court. After due consideration and to maximize judicial efficiency and economy, the above-referenced courts find that delinquent ad valorem suits filed pursuant to Texas Property Tax Code Chapters 31 through 34 warrant a waiver of the mandatory disclosure requirements of Tex. R. Civ. P. 194, IT IS ORDERED that all delinquent ad valorem tax suits filed pursuant to Texas Property Tax Code Chapters 31 through 34 in the above-referenced courts shall be exempt from the automatic, mandatory disclosure requirements of Rule 194.1, 194.2, 194.3, 194.4; provided however, IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the exemption herein provided is only extended to the mandatory requirements of Tex. R. Civ. P. 194, and any party duly served with any discovery request by the opposing party shall nevertheless be required to wholly and fully comply with discovery requests initiated by opposing parties in a timely manner, as the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure shall otherwise require. SIGNED AND ENTERED November 20, 2024 [handwritten]. [signature] Honorable Surendran Pattel, Judge, 240th District Court [signature] Honorable Steve Rogers, Judge, 268th District Court [signature] Honorable Tameika Carter, Judge, 400th District Court [signature] Honorable J. Christian Becerra, Judge, 434th District Court [signature line, unsigned] Honorable Chad Bridges, Judge, 458th District Court [Stamp: COPY, 2024 DEC 18 AM 9:27, Clerk District Court, Fort Bend County] [Running footer: Page 1 Standing Order Regarding Mandatory Disclosures in Delinquent Tax Cases]
IN THE 240TH DISTRICT COURT, 268TH DISTRICT COURT, 400TH DISTRICT COURT, 434TH DISTRICT COURT, AND 458TH DISTRICT COURT FOR FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS STANDING ORDER REGARDING MANDATORY DISCLOSURES IN TAX CASES Rule 194.1(a) of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure imposes a duty on a party to disclose to the other parties the information or material described in Rules 194.2, 194.3, and 194.4, except as
Reviewer note: Operative provisions transcribed verbatim by vision-read of the registered scanned document (rasterized at 170 dpi and read page-by-page this session); the registered document (sha256 0a714d35284f…) is the controlling text. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 0a714d35284f..., 1 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]
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.