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Administrative Order 2025-2 — Order Requiring Security for Appointees' Fees (Harris County Probate Courts) — Harris County, as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 02/03/2025). 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
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED pursuant to Texas Estates Code §§ 53.052 & 1053.052 that, upon filing of 1) Applications for the Determination of Heirship and 2) Applications for the Appointment of a Guardian, Applicants shall pay the amount of $750.00 as security for the costs for the Attorney Ad Litem appointed in their case. The provision in this paragraph shall take effect no sooner than March 3, 2025. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Applicants who have filed an Affidavit of Inability to Pay Costs in the case shall not be required to deposit the security for the costs for the Attorney Ad Litem appointed in their case. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Harris County Clerk shall collect and place the funds into a Court Appointed Ad Litem Fund (not the Registry of the Court) until ordered by the Court to pay such funds to the Appointee. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Harris County Clerk's Office, Harris County Probate Courts, and the Harris County Auditor's Office shall collaborate to devise a reasonable reconciliation process related to the collection and disbursement of these funds. Signed February 3, 2025, by the Administrative Judge of the Harris County Probate Courts.
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 e0528aa9bbfc…) is the controlling text. As the later county-wide order on the same subject, this supersedes Probate Court No. 4's single-court Order Requiring Security for Appointees' Fees of August 16, 2024 (TOPICs doc 2268, $700.00 beginning October 1, 2024).
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.