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Standing orders for child protection cases in the Panola County Court at Law: hair and nail drug tests must include fentanyl detection (not alcohol testing); the Department files the visitation plan under Family Code § 262.115 before the adversary hearing; absent an emergency a child's placement does not change without the guardian ad litem/CASA's agreement or a court order; the common application and ECAP assessment go to the child's attorney and guardian ad litem at each placement search; placement searches cover every licensed placement in Texas including the GPS database, and no emergency-shelter placement outside Panola County is made before that search; after three months outside Panola County or 150 miles, the placement specialist files a written report and appears in person; least restrictive setting; placement types, counties, changes and respite or temporary stays are listed in the Status Report and each court report; monthly adoptive-placement searches with written reports for children in permanent managing conservatorship whose parents' rights have been terminated or whose parents are deceased; adoption subsidy packet and TARE application deficiencies are met on within three business days; the travel approval form goes to the attorney ad litem and guardian ad litem/CASA before the judge's approval of out-of-state travel. Effective September 1, 2024.
Texas > Tenth Administrative Judicial Region > Panola County > County Court at Law and the Northeast Texas Child Protection Court No. 1 sitting in Panola County. Applies in cases filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services and its single source continuum contractor, and to children in the Department's temporary or permanent managing conservatorship.
STANDING ORDERS IN ALL CHILD PROTECTION CASES IN THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW OF PANOLA COUNTY, TEXAS The following orders are necessary to protect each child and are in the best interest of each child before the Court in any case filed by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and its single source continuum contractor, currently 4 Kids 4 Families, (hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Department"): 1. IT IS ORDERED that all hair and nail drug tests conducted in these cases shall include detection for the presence of fentanyl. This order does not apply to alcohol testing. The following orders are necessary to protect each child and are in the best interest of each child before the Court while in the temporary or permanent managing conservatorship of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and its single source continuum contractor, currently 4 Kids 4 Families, (hereinafter collectively referred to as the ("Department"): 1. IT IS ORDERED that the Department shall file the visitation plan as defined in Texas Family Code Section 262.115 before the Adversary Hearing under Texas Family Code Section 262.201. 2. IT IS ORDERED that, absent an emergency, a child's placement shall not change unless agreed to by the child's Guardian Ad Litem/CASA or a court order. 3. IT IS ORDERED that the Department shall produce to the child's attorney and guardian ad litem the child's common application and Every Child A Priority (ECAP) assessment that is submitted to determine a child's placement at each placement search. 4. IT IS ORDERED that for every placement search for a child the Department shall search each and every licensed placement in the state of Texas, including but not limited to placements licensed or contracted directly with the Department of Family and Protective Services (hereinafter "DFPS") or placements licensed or contracted with other Single Source Continuum Contractors operating outside of Panola County, Texas. IT IS ORDERED that every placement search shall include a search of the General Placement Search (GPS) Database maintained by DFPS. 5. IT IS ORDERED that the Department shall not place a child in an emergency shelter outside of Panola County until the Department has searched each and every licensed placement in the state of Texas, including but not limited to placements licensed or contracted directly with the Department of Family and Protective Services or placements licensed or contracted with other Single Source Continuum Contractors operating outside of Panola County, Texas. IT IS ORDERED that every placement search shall include a search of the General Placement Search (GPS) Database maintained by DFPS. 6. IT IS ORDERED that if a child/children has not been placed in Panola county or within 150 miles of Panola county and is not in a relative/fictive kin or adoptive home after a period of three (3) months- the 4 Kids 4 Families "placement specialist" assigned to the child/children shall provide a written report to the Court that includes the following information: 1) what placements were contacted; 2) what person with personal knowledge of the child/children contacted the placements; and 3) the response from the placement. Emails or fax contacts attempts will not be considered as compliance with this requirement. 7. IT IS ORDERED that if a child/children has not been placed in Panola county or within 150 miles of Panola county and is not in a relative/fictive kin or adoptive home for a period of three (3) months- the 4 Kids 4 Families "placement specialist" assigned to the child/children shall appear in person at the next court hearing scheduled for that child/children to discuss the active, ongoing efforts to place the child/children within Panola county or within 150 miles of Panola County. 8. IT IS ORDERED that the Department shall place each child in the least restrictive setting regardless of whether the placement is licensed or contracted directly with the Department of Family and Protective Services or licensed or contracted with another Single Source Continuum Contractor operating outside of Panola County, Texas. 9. IT IS ORDERED that the Department shall list all placement types, county of placements, and placement changes in the Status Report and each court report thereafter. 10. IT IS ORDERED that the Department shall include each respite or other temporary placement stay (e.g. hospital, jail, hotel, overnight in an office, etc.) in each court report, including the Status Report. 11. IT IS ORDERED that the Department shall conduct a search for an adoptive placement at least one time each month for each child in the permanent managing conservatorship of the Department whose parents have been terminated or are deceased. Each month the 4 Kids 4 Families "placement specialist" assigned to the child/children is ORDERED to provide a written report to the Court and the child's attorney and guardian ad litem/CASA that includes the following information: 1) what placements or agencies were contacted; 2) what person with personal knowledge of the child/children contacted the placements or agencies; and 3) the response from the placement or agency. Emails or fax contacts attempts will not be considered as compliance with this requirement. 12. IT IS ORDERED that the adoption specialist who returns an adoption subsidiary packet for deficiency shall meet with the prospective adoptive family and permanency case manager and child placing agency within three (3) business days to correct the deficiency. 13. IT IS ORDERED that the Department employee who returns a TARE application for a deficiency shall meet with the permanency case manager and their supervisor within three (3) business days to correct the deficiency. 14. IT IS ORDERED that, absent an emergency, the Department first provide the travel approval form to the child/children's attorney ad litem and Guardian Ad Litem/CASA prior to Judge's approval if the child/ children will be traveling outside of the state of Texas. IT IS ORDERED that this standing order is effective September 1, 2024. Signed this 15 day of July, 2024. [signature] Lisa M. Andrews Associate Judge Northeast Texas CPC #1 [signature] Rick McPherson County Court at Law Panola County, Texas [File stamp: FILED at 11:29 o'clock a.m., JUL 24 2024, Lindsey Smith, Clerk, District Court & County Court at Law, Panola Co., TX, by deputy]
STANDING ORDERS IN ALL CHILD PROTECTION CASES IN THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW OF PANOLA COUNTY, TEXAS The following orders are necessary to protect each child and are in the best interest of each child before the Court in any case filed by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and its single source continuum contractor, currently 4 Kids 4 Families, (hereinafter collectively referred t
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-19 (AJR-10 Tenth Region build) from BenchPath custody sources/registered/2035.pdf (application/pdf, 586588 bytes, sha256 a10707c3c03419ce695b15f078e0641c8d284cf06f49a08b4afc91fa918f045e; 3 pages) - the TOPICs-registered document: 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. Identical bytes posted on the county site: https://www.co.panola.tx.us/DocumentCenter/View/278/Standing-Orders-In-All-Child-Protection-Cases-In-The-County-Court-At-Law-Of-Panola-County-Texas-PDF. Three-page image-only PDF; OCR draft corrected line by line against the rendered pages (the draft had dropped parts of orders 9, 11, 12 and 14). The instrument numbers its orders in two runs (1, then 1-14) and prints "adoption subsidiary packet"; both are as printed.
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.