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Judge Claudia Laird's standing order on remote hearings and appearances in Probate Court No. 1: the court uses Zoom (the Court Reporter or Court Administrator emails the link, or litigants obtain the link for regularly scheduled dockets from the court's website); a participant able to appear only by telephone must coordinate it the day before with the appropriate court coordinator; a litigant intending to offer exhibits must email them to all parties and the Court Reporter no later than 3:00 p.m. the day before the hearing, with the email subject stating the full cause number and '[Party Name] Exhibits' and the documents in PDF format — the court cannot consider, and the Court Reporter will not maintain in the record, exhibits not timely emailed in the correct format; and an attorney noticing a Zoom hearing must include in the notice the Zoom link and meeting ID (provided by the court when the hearing is set).
Texas > Montgomery County > Probate Court No. 1 (Judge Claudia Laird) — remote hearings and appearances.
STANDING ORDER REGARDING REMOTE HEARINGS OR APPEARANCES FOR PROBATE COURT NUMBER ONE The Texas Government Code allows for remote hearings and/or appearances in Probate Court No. 1. Technology and state law allow options not previously available to handle cases. The following restrictions and limitations will apply to remote hearings and appearances made in Probate Court No. 1. PROCEDURES FOR LITIG
Reviewer note: Image-only registration (two pages) read through the vision lane; operative provisions quoted verbatim; no execution date printed on the read pages (effective_date null; verify against the signed print if material). Composed benchpath-ajr2-p2. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 de50443632f5..., 2 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]
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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