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Every aspect of a Title 5 or Chapter 45 Texas Family Code case, including ancillary matters, in which the Title IV-D agency is the moving party is referred to the Associate Judge for Title IV-D Cases appointed to serve the Fourth Administrative Judicial Region.
Applies to Title IV-D (Attorney General child-support) matters in the 24th, 135th and 267th District Courts in Jackson County; the same order governs the other five counties and the 377th. Signed by Hon. Stephen Williams (135th) as Administrative Judge. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
IN THE 24TH, 135TH, 267TH AND 377TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURTS OF VICTORIA COUNTY, CALHOUN COUNTY, DEWITT COUNTY, GOLIAD COUNTY, JACKSON COUNTY, AND REFUGIO COUNTY, TEXAS — STANDING ORDER OF THE COURT(S) REGARDING REFERRING CERTAIN MATTERS TO ASSOCIATE JUDGE FOR TITLE IV-D CASES. Having determined that it is appropriate to refer to an associate judge for Title IV-D cases any aspect of a case under T
Reviewer note: Jackson County edition composed 2026-09-08 from the Calhoun County TOPICs registration receipt (the shared-instrument doctrine: the instrument is a joint order of the 24th, 135th, 267th and 377th District Courts for all six counties they serve; Calhoun registered it, Jackson did not). Text identical to the Calhoun edition. Original composition note: Composed 2026-09-07 from the TOPICs custody scan (text layer read in full; signing date confirmed through the vision lane). Single current signer (Judge Kemper Stephen Williams, 135th District Court, Local Administrative Judge) — judge-joined. Bound to Calhoun County as a county edition of the shared instrument.
A standing order of the 97th Judicial District Court sealing the files in cases in which Child Protective Services or the Department of Family and Protective Services appears as petitioner, in the counties comprising the 97th Judicial District.
Dallas County Standing Order Regarding Children, Pets, Property and Conduct of the Parties (Family District Courts General Orders, current edition F2026/05, revised Jan. 31, 2026 — a re-adoption of the same operative text by the current bench: Hon. Kim Brown (254th), Vonda Bailey (255th), Sandre Streete (256th), Ashley Wysocki (301st), Sandra Jackson (302nd), LaDeitra Adkins (303rd), and Andrea D. Plumlee (330th)), as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/11/2023). The order "applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in Dallas County" automatically, without request: child-disruption prohibitions, pet protection, party-conduct restraints, divorce-case property/records/insurance freezes with specific authorizations, mandatory petition attachment, and its TRO-to-temporary-injunction lifecycle.
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