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Justice Court Precinct 4's Youth Diversion Plan, effective Jan. 1, 2025 and published on the court's web page (last modified Jan. 29, 2025): applies to children alleged to have committed fine-only misdemeanors other than traffic offenses; court staff serve as diversion coordinators; art. 45.304 eligibility (no prior unsuccessful diversion, none successful 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 before any adjudication of guilt and is found guilty and sentenced only if the family declines; a $50 administrative fee from the parent only if agreed, waived for indigence; diversion strategies (teen court, school and educational programs, counseling, mentoring, restitution up to $100, community service up to 20 hours); protections for home-schooled children; a signed 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 4 (Place 1) — children charged with fine-only non-traffic misdemeanors, their parents, and the prosecutor.
"EFFECTIVE DATE OF PLAN: JANUARY 1, 2025 … YOUTH DIVERSION COORDINATORS: Justice Court, Precinct 4 Court Staff. APPLICABILITY: This plan applies to a child that is alleged to have engaged in conduct that constitutes a misdemeanor punishable by a fine only, other than a traffic offense. … ELIGIBILITY: A child shall be diverted from formal criminal prosecution if the child meets the eligibility requ
Reviewer note: Own-site HTML page read in full 2026-09-06 from custody; quoted verbatim. 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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