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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).
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 Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.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 Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
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