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Direct Filing Order of the Harris County Family District Courts (2023 amendment, effective February 1, 2023) — posted on the court's own website — the court-procedure tier (standing procedures, policies, and preferences the court itself publishes), distinct from the TOPICs-registered local-rules tier (TRCP 3a registration applies to local rules). Operative requirements quoted verbatim; the posted document is the controlling text.
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2023 Order Amending Direct Filing Order — District Judges, Harris County, Texas. The Direct Filing Order filed on September 1, 1977 (Vol. 1465, Pages 56–72), amended twenty-four times through October 12, 2020, is hereby further amended by Order of the Board of District Court Judges Trying Family Cases, effective February 1, 2023, to be implemented by the Harris County District Clerk in all instances no later than March 1, 2023. Plan and Procedure — I. Automated System: when any original proceeding is presented to the District Clerk for filing in one of the Family District Court Trial Division courts, the District Clerk's Office is ORDERED to immediately assign a case number in sequence, with the case then assigned among the family courts under the plan. [Five-page order; the posted scan is the controlling text.]
Reviewer note: Own-site content fetched by us 2026-08-22 (Phase 3 justex/page sweep; hashed receipts in custody). Operative provisions transcribed by vision-read of the posted scanned document (170-dpi rasterization); the posted document is the controlling text. Posted on both the 308th and 311th court pages (separate scan copies); composed once. Provisions quoted from the vision-read first page.
9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.
6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.