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Judge Mary Tom Curnutt's order adopting the Justice Court Precinct 2 Youth Diversion Plan under Code of Criminal Procedure art. 45.306(b), effective Jan. 1, 2025: applies to children alleged to have committed fine-only misdemeanors other than traffic offenses; eligibility per art. 45.304 (no prior unsuccessful diversion, no successful diversion in the previous 365 days, no prosecutor objection, written consent of parent and child); an eligible child who goes to trial must be offered diversion instead of an adjudication of guilt; a $50 administrative fee from the parent only if agreed, waived for indigence; diversion strategies (teen court, educational programs, counseling, community service up to 20 hours, restitution up to $100, etc.) and prohibited strategies for home-schooled children; a written diversion agreement; successful completion bars prosecution and records are expunged at 18; unsuccessful completion may be referred for prosecution.
Texas > Tarrant County > Justice Court, Precinct 2 (Place 1) — children charged with fine-only non-traffic misdemeanors, their parents, and the prosecutor.
"IT IS ORDERED pursuant to Article 45.306(b) of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure that the Court adopts the Youth Diversion Plan hereafter referred to as the 'Tarrant County Justice of the Peace Precinct 2 Youth Diversion Plan' … THIS PLAN WILL BECOME EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2025." "APPLICABILITY: This plan applies to a child that is alleged to have engaged in conduct that constitutes a misdemeano
Reviewer note: Own-site document (text layer, 6,307 chars) read in full 2026-09-06; quoted verbatim; the adopting order's signature date is blank in the posted print. Composed benchpath-ajr8-tarrant (own-site lane).
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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