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Administrative Order M2024-1 — Mental Health Division (Collection of Filing Fees for Mental Health Cases) — Harris County, as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 10/08/2024). The operative requirements are quoted from the registered document; the registered document is the controlling text.
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NO. M2024-1 [handwritten] ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER § IN THE PROBATE COURT NO. THREE (3) OF HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER WHEREAS: 1. Section 135.102 of the Texas Local Government Code requires that a person shall pay in a statutory county court, statutory probate court, or county court a fee on filing any probate, guardianship, or mental health case; and 2. Section 571.018 of the Texas Health & Safety Code requires costs to be billed by the clerk of the county conducting the hearings; and 3. Texas Attorney General Opinion KP-0464, dated May 13, 2024, states that the payment of filing fees associated with mental health cases must be paid at the time of filing unless a county is responsible for paying such fees; NOW THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the Harris county Clerk shall commence with the collection of filing fees for mental health cases with such fees collected and deposited into accounts as designated by the Harris County Auditor. It is further ORDERED that the Harris County Clerk's Office, Harris County Probate Court #3, the Harris County Auditor, and the Harris County Attorney's Office shall collaborate to create an automated mechanism for the collection of such fees and for the disbursement of appointee fees. It is further ordered that such fees may be held in a separate Mental Health Appointee Fee Fund (MHAFF) account until the court orders their payment to the appointed individuals. It is further ORDERED that the aforementioned offices shall collaborate to devise a reconciliation process related to the collection and disbursement of these funds. It is further ORDERED that this order is effective immediately. Signed this 8 [handwritten] day of October [handwritten], 2024 [signature] JUDGE JASON COX, Harris County Probate Court No. 3 and Local Administrative Judge of the Harris County Probate and Mental Health Courts APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CONTENT [signature] Teneshia Hudspeth, Harris County Clerk ______________________________, Harris County Auditor's Office ______________________________, Harris County Attorney's Office [Running footer: 1 / 2]
NO. M2024-1 [handwritten] ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER § IN THE PROBATE COURT NO. THREE (3) OF HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER WHEREAS: 1. Section 135.102 of the Texas Local Government Code requires that a person shall pay in a statutory county court, statutory probate court, or county court a fee on filing any probate, guardianship, or mental health case; and 2. Section 5
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 e24636b0b690…) is the controlling text. Grounded in Tex. Local Gov't Code § 135.102, Tex. Health & Safety Code § 571.018, and Texas Attorney General Opinion KP-0464 (May 13, 2024). [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 e24636b0b690..., 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.