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The Parker County Court's standing order requiring a fiduciary applicant in probate and guardianship to be represented by a licensed attorney, with limited exceptions a pro se party may pursue.
Applies to self-represented applicants in probate and guardianship matters in the Parker County Court.
Fiduciary applicants (for letters testamentary or of administration, heirship, or guardianship) must be represented by a licensed attorney (Steele v. McDonald), and appointed counsel is provided only where state law mandates it. Although the clerk is required to accept documents for filing by pro se applicants, the court will take no action on the documents unless there is an attorney of record. A
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the county-site document (read in full). Court-specific County Court (sitting in probate); judge-joined to Deen (named).
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.
General Order of the Civil District Courts sitting in Dallas County (signed April 6, 2020 by the thirteen civil presiding judges), as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 10/07/2023): the 25-page limit on motions and briefs with formatting floors — the instrument the individual courts' policies cite as the amended page-limit rule.
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