County Court at Law Authorization of Affidavit-Based… — Henderson County, TX · BenchPath

County Court at Law Authorization of Affidavit-Based Finalization for Agreed Family Law Orders, Henderson County

High confidence· verified September 22, 2026Case ManagementCounty Court at Law Authorization of Affidavit-Based Finalization for Agreed Family Law Orders, Henderson County, Henderson County, Texas; posted on the county's website (https://www.henderson-county.com/DocumentCenter/View/775/Implementation-of-Affidavit-Based-Prove-Up-Procedure-Effective-April-12026-PDF), fetched 2026-09-19.

Summary

Policy of the Henderson County Court at Law (Judge Scott Williams), effective April 1, 2026, permitting the finalization of most agreed family law matters - excluding termination of parental rights and adoptions - by submission of a properly executed prove-up affidavit or unsworn declaration in lieu of a live hearing (optional; parties may still request a hearing). It states the scope (agreed divorces, SAPCRs, modifications, and temporary orders), the legal authority, the required procedure (agreement, affidavit, filing through the District Clerk, review, notification), approved forms, and that the court retains discretion to require a hearing. The posted document attaches a prove-up affidavit form, which is not reproduced here.

Applies to

Texas > Tenth Administrative Judicial Region > Henderson County > County Court at Law.

Source of truth

COUNTY COURT AT LAW — SCOTT WILLIAMS, JUDGE Henderson County Courthouse, 100 E. Tyler St., Courthouse Room 101, Athens, Texas 75751. Ph (903) 675-6162, Fx (903) 675-6191. [Laurie C. Brown, Court Reporter; Nicki Dunn, Court Coordinator; Richard Miller, Bailiff] March 18, 2026 To: All Attorneys and Pro Se Litigants Practicing in Family Law Matters Before This Court Re: Authorization of Affidavit-Bas

Official source: Henderson County Courts - www.henderson-county.com (county website; district courts, County Courts at Law, District Clerk and justice court pages)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 21, 2026
Effective date: April 1, 2026
Last verified: September 22, 2026benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-20 (AJR-10 Tenth Region build, own-site layer) from BenchPath custody ajr10 corpus sources/county/henderson/f91c7e19733e65a2.pdf (388,748 bytes, sha256 f91c7e19733e65a225b432cb49ec10364df4f714b235c943870e3d356783883b; 5 page(s)) - the document the county posts on its own website, not registered with the Office of Court Administration's TOPICs registry as of 2026-09-20: transcribed by eye from the rendered pages of the scanned PDF (no text layer in the file was relied on), machine OCR draft corrected page by page; signature and file-stamp blocks bracketed. The county posts this policy with an attached prove-up affidavit form (a fill-in template); the rule published here is the policy, not the attached form. [judge-procedure lane 2026-09-20: attached to Douglas (Scott) S. Williams as the sole sitting judge of the County Court at Law (Henderson County); operative court procedure, attribution by current seat.] [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 f91c7e19733e..., 5 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]