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Judge Carlos Villalon Jr.'s standing order for the Child Protection Court of the Rio Grande Valley West: verification of children's legal names, consent requests deemed approved after three business days without response, hearing orders submitted within thirty calendar days, court-appointed counsel vouchers e-filed within sixty days of the hearing, remote appearance through the court's ZConnect route, bench warrants filed at least three weeks before trial, and supersession of all prior standing orders of the court.
Applies to Department of Family and Protective Services cases before the Child Protection Court of the Rio Grande Valley West sitting in Hidalgo County (an associate-judge child protection court; not a county court row). Supersedes the March 2023 standing order (TOPICs 1271, kept as a record). Registered under Hidalgo County (County; District).
FIRST AMENDED STANDING ORDER Page 1 of 14 IN RE: TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF § IN THE CHILD PROTECTION COURT FAMILY AND PROTECTIVE § OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY WEST SERVICES LITIGATION § HIDALGO COUNTY, TEXAS FIRST AMENDED STANDING ORDER On this day and in considering the best interest of the child or children, the rights of the parent or parents whose lives are affected, the publicly-funded nature of this
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-10 from the TOPICs custody file (14 pages; native text layer published as extracted after whitespace normalization only). Joined to Associate Judge Carlos Villalon Jr. (the signing and current judge, seeded as a regional officer homed at Hidalgo). Edition precedence: supersedes 1271.
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 Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.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.
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