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Judge Kenneth D. Sanders's order adopting the Justice Court Precinct 7 Youth Diversion Plan under Code of Criminal Procedure art. 45.306(b) (signed Dec. 17, 2024; effective Jan. 1, 2025): the same statutory plan structure as Precinct 2's — fine-only non-traffic misdemeanors by children aged 10–16; art. 45.304 eligibility (no prior unsuccessful diversion, none successful in the past 365 days, no prosecutor objection, written parent-and-child consent); mandatory diversion offer before an adjudication of guilt; a $50 parental fee only if agreed, waived for indigence; strategies from teen court to counseling, restitution up to $100 and up to 20 hours of community service; protections for home-schooled children; expunction at 18 on successful completion.
Texas > Tarrant County > Justice Court, Precinct 7 (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 7 Youth Diversion Plan' … THIS PLAN WILL BECOME EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2025. SIGNED AND ENTERED on this 17th day of December, 2024 — Kenneth D. Sanders." "Beginning January 1, 2025, juveniles age
Reviewer note: Own-site document (text layer, 6,605 chars) read in full 2026-09-06; 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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