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Probate Court No. 1's standing order (Oct. 4, 2017) amending Section VII of the Uniform Standing Order on Court Rules for E-Filing so that all documents required for a hearing on an uncontested application (proofs, oath, order) must be e-filed as lead documents at least five business days before the hearing, replacing the three-day requirement of the 2014 rules.
Texas > Tarrant County > Probate Court No. 1 — applicants and counsel setting hearings on uncontested applications (will probates, administrations, heirships, guardianships).
"No. 17-AF00001-1 … STANDING ORDER AMENDING TIME FOR FILING HEARING DOCUMENTS IN HEARINGS ON UNCONTESTED APPLICATIONS IN TARRANT COUNTY PROBATE COURT ONE — On this date, the court, acting sua sponte, finds and orders as follows: 1. Standing Order No. 14-AF00014-1 and 2, Uniform Standing Order on Court Rules for E-Filing, promulgated and signed September 11, 2014, in Section VII. A: 'Specific Procedures: Step-By-Step' requires the e-filing of all hearing documents (as Lead Documents) three (3) days in advance of a hearing date. 2. As a part of the ongoing implementation of paperless dockets in the Tarrant County courts, it is advisable to require the e-filing of these documents at least five (5) business days in advance of any hearing on any application of an uncontested matter. IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that Section VII of the Uniform Standing Order on Court Rules for E-Filing, as referenced above, is hereby amended to require that all documents required for a hearing on the application for an uncontested matter be e-filed at least five (5) business days in advance of any hearing on said application. This order is effective as of the date it is entered. Signed this 4th day of October 2017."
"No. 17-AF00001-1 … STANDING ORDER AMENDING TIME FOR FILING HEARING DOCUMENTS IN HEARINGS ON UNCONTESTED APPLICATIONS IN TARRANT COUNTY PROBATE COURT ONE — On this date, the court, acting sua sponte, finds and orders as follows: 1. Standing Order No. 14-AF00014-1 and 2, Uniform Standing Order on Court Rules for E-Filing, promulgated and signed September 11, 2014, in Section VII. A: 'Specific Proce
Reviewer note: Own-site instrument (text layer, 1 p) read in full 2026-09-06; quoted verbatim; signed under a predecessor judge (2017) and still posted and enforced by the current court (its Hearings & Trials page cites it) — court-scoped, no judge join. 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.