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Administrative Order 2019-2 — Automatic Continuances to Care for a New Child (Harris County Probate Courts) — 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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Administrative Order 2019-2, In the Probate Courts of Harris County, Texas — Administrative Order on Automatic Continuances to Care for a New Child. The Probate Courts recognize the importance of expectant and new parents to be able to petition the Courts for an automatic continuance of trial settings in order to prepare for and care for a new child. IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that a lead counsel designated pursuant to Tex. R. Civ. P. 8 who has been actively engaged in a proceeding in a Harris County Probate Court may seek an automatic continuance of a trial setting for up to 120 days to care for a new child, whether for the birth, the adoption, or placement of a child in foster care. Such motion may be set and considered by submission. Signed this 25th day of June, 2019 [Judges Simoneaux (No. 1), Newman (No. 2), Cox (No. 3), Horwitz (No. 4)].
Reviewer note: Own-site document live-fetched by us 2026-08-22, byte-identical to the AJR-11 recon capture of 2026-08-21 (dual custody). Operative provisions transcribed by vision-read of the posted scanned document (rasterized at 170 dpi; no usable embedded text layer); the posted document (sha256 e41e861f05af…) is the controlling text.
18 verbatim requirements from 5th Jud. Cir., M-2018-65 — sha256-hashed 2026-07-25.
2 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1986-33A.