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Administrative Order 2024-1 — Order Setting Allocation of Cases (Harris County Probate Courts) — Harris County, as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 06/06/2024). The operative requirements are quoted from the registered document; the registered document is the controlling text.
Texas > Harris County > Statutory Probate Courts Nos. 1-5
Administrative Order 2024-1 § In the Probate Courts of Harris County, Texas ORDER SETTING ALLOCATION OF CASES WHEREAS, HB 3474, Legislative Session 88(R), passed the Texas Legislature and signed by the Governor on June 13, 2023, created Harris County Probate Court No. 5, effective September 1, 2023.¹ WHEREAS, HB 3474 repealed Tex. Gov't Code § 25.1034(j), (prescribing the division of cases among the four probate courts), giving local control over the division of cases.² WHEREAS, the Harris County Probate Judges signed Administrative Orders 2023-2 on January 18, 2024 to begin phase two of the allocation of cases. WHEREAS, the Harris County Probate Judges have determined that Probate Court 5 is ready to begin phase three of the allocation of cases, beginning March 1, 2024. NOW THEREFORE IT IS ORDERED, beginning March 4, 2024, the Clerk shall allocate newly filed cases among the courts as follows: Probate Court No. 1 — 24% Probate Court No. 2 — 24% Probate Court No. 3 — 14% Probate Court No. 4 — 14% Probate Court No. 5 — 24% IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this order shall remain in effect until further order of the Court. Signed this 25 [handwritten] day of January, 2024 [signature] Jerry W. Simoneaux, Jr. Judge, Harris County Probate Court No. 1 [signature] Pamela Medina, Judge, Harris County Probate Court No. 2 [signature] Jason Cox, Judge, Harris County Probate Court No. 3, Administrative Judge [signature] James Horwitz, Judge, Harris County Probate Court No. 4 [signature] Kathleen S. Stone, Harris County Probate Court No. 5 [File stamp: FILED, 2024 JAN 26 PM 12:26, COUNTY CLERK, HARRIS COUNTY TEXAS, with the clerk's signature] ¹ Amended by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 861 (H.B. 3474), Sec. 2.011(a), eff. September 1, 2023 ² Repealed by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 861 (H.B. 3474), Sec. 2.011(b), eff. September 1, 2023
Administrative Order 2024-1 § In the Probate Courts of Harris County, Texas ORDER SETTING ALLOCATION OF CASES WHEREAS, HB 3474, Legislative Session 88(R), passed the Texas Legislature and signed by the Governor on June 13, 2023, created Harris County Probate Court No. 5, effective September 1, 2023.¹ WHEREAS, HB 3474 repealed Tex. Gov't Code § 25.1034(j), (prescribing the division of cases among t
Reviewer note: Operative provisions transcribed by vision-read of the registered scanned document (rasterized at 170 dpi; the embedded text layer is absent or corrupt); the registered document (sha256 cc4d2032dcf0…) is the controlling text. Phase three of the post-HB 3474 allocation; supersedes Administrative Order 2023-1 (TOPICs doc 1964, effective November 13, 2023) and Administrative Order 2023-2 (TOPICs doc 1966, phase two beginning January 22, 2024). [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 cc4d2032dcf0..., 2 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.