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A standing order of the District Courts serving Lavaca County (25th and 2nd 25th Judicial Districts) on the use of generative artificial intelligence, placing the duty of accuracy on the lawyer or litigant, warning of hallucinations, and requiring a bold verification in any pleading prepared with the aid of generative AI.
Applies to any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses generative AI in work filed before the 25th or 2nd 25th Judicial District Court in Lavaca County. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Standing Order on Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence. I. The Duty Rests With The Lawyer/Litigant, Not The Computer: every attorney in Texas must swear under oath to 'honestly demean myself in the practice of law,' serve the client to the best of their ability, and conduct themselves with integrity and civility; generative AI is a computer program that creates new content from user prompts (examples include Google Gemini, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Anthropic (Claude)), and self-represented litigants are subject to the same statutory requirements as attorneys to file good-faith pleadings without misrepresentations. II. You Are Put On Notice And Cannot Claim Ignorance: an attorney or self-represented litigant who chooses to use generative AI is on notice that it suffers from 'hallucinations' (answers wholly or partially inaccurate), and if the Court finds pleadings contain misrepresentations the filer cannot later claim ignorance and is subject to a show-cause order and potential sanctions. III. AI Users Must Verify Their Pleadings: because of generative AI's tendency to fabricate and malfunction, the Court ORDERS any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses generative AI in their work product, research, or drafting to include a verification (in bold) in their pleadings swearing under penalty of perjury, based on personal knowledge, and listing the generative-AI programs used and attesting that the filer has verified the content.
Standing Order on Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence. I. The Duty Rests With The Lawyer/Litigant, Not The Computer: every attorney in Texas must swear under oath to 'honestly demean myself in the practice of law,' serve the client to the best of their ability, and conduct themselves with integrity and civility; generative AI is a computer program that creates new content from user prompts (
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the TOPICs custody scan (image-only PDF read through the vision lane; identical to Colorado doc 2975). Shared 25th/2nd 25th generative-AI standing order registered by Colorado (2975) and Lavaca (2965); bound to Lavaca County. Carried on /texas/ai-rules.
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.