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Standing order of the Tarrant County family district judges (registered Apr. 17, 2026; signed by Judges Nevarez 231st, Munford 322nd, Newell 233rd, Poulos 324th and Bennett 360th): the District Clerk must seal every birth certificate, and every alternative proof of a child's parents' identity, filed under Texas Family Code § 102.008(c-1).
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[Seal: THE STATE OF TEXAS] STANDING ORDER REGARDING BIRTH CERTIFICATES AND ALTERNATE PROOF OF IDENTITY IT IS ORDERED that the Tarrant County District Clerk shall seal all birth certificates filed pursuant to the requirements of Texas Family Code §102.008(c-l). IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Tarrant County District Clerk shall seal all alternative proof of the identity of the child's parents filed pursuant to the requirements of Texas Family Code §102.008(c-l). [signature] Judge Nevarez, 231st District Court, Date: [handwritten: 4-16-26] [signature] Judge Newell, 233rd District Court, Date: [handwritten: Apr. 16, 2026] [signature] Judge Munford, 322nd District Court, Date: [handwritten: 4-16-2026] [signature] Judge Poulos, 324th District Court, Date: [handwritten: 4/16/26] [signature] Judge Terry, 325th District Court, Date: [handwritten: April 16, 2026] [signature] Judge Bennett, 360th District Court, Date: [handwritten: 4-16-26] [One-page scanned order typed from the page image (its text layer is OCR). The six signature blocks are set in three rows of two; each judge dated the order by hand. The subsection in both citations is printed with a lower-case letter, "(c-l)" (the glyph is taller and narrower than the digit 1 in "102" on the same line), and is kept so. Ordinal suffixes printed as superscripts are given in line. Bold is not reproduced.]
[Seal: THE STATE OF TEXAS] STANDING ORDER REGARDING BIRTH CERTIFICATES AND ALTERNATE PROOF OF IDENTITY IT IS ORDERED that the Tarrant County District Clerk shall seal all birth certificates filed pursuant to the requirements of Texas Family Code §102.008(c-l). IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Tarrant County District Clerk shall seal all alternative proof of the identity of the child's parents filed
Reviewer note: Text-layer registration (1 page, 583 chars) read in full; order quoted verbatim; signature dates are only partly legible in the text layer, so the registration date stands in the title and no effective date is set. Composed benchpath-ajr8-tarrant. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-23 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 960d66eee4f5..., 1 page(s)) typed from the page images, its text layer used only as a check; verbatim, source typos kept, stamps/signatures bracketed; the earlier abstract replaced by the full instrument; confidence high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21]
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.