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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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"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-1). 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-1)." Signed by Judge Nevarez (231st District Court), Judge Munford (322nd), Judge Newell (233rd), Judge Poulos (324th) and Judge Bennett (360th).
"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-1). 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-1)." Signed by Judge Nevarez (231st Dist
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.
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.