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Order of the Tarrant County family district judges (January 2019) instructing the District Clerk on the Certificate of Adoption: the Clerk completes Section 4 and, on request, hands the certificate to the adoptive parents' attorney (or the adoptive parents if pro se), who then mail the completed certificate with the fees to the Bureau of Vital Statistics, Texas Department of Health, P.O. Box 12040, Austin, Texas 78711-2040.
Texas > Tarrant County > the Family District Courts — adoption cases; the attorney for the adoptive parents (or the pro se adoptive parents) mails the completed certificate.
"The District Clerk of Tarrant County, Texas is hereby ORDERED to utilize the following procedures regarding the handling of the Certificate of Adoption. 1. The Clerk shall complete Section 4 of the Certificate of Adoption. 2. Then, upon the request of the attorney for the adoptive parents or the adoptive parents, if they are pro se, the Certificate of Adoption will be given to the attorney or the adoptive parents, if they are pro se, and the attorney or the adoptive parents, if they are pro se, will then mail the properly completed Certificate of Adoption with the appropriate fees to: Bureau of Vital Statistics, Texas Department of Health, P. O. Box 12040, Austin, Texas 78711-2040." SIGNED January 2019 by the Presiding Judges of the 233rd, 322nd, 324th, 325th and 360th District Courts (the form carries attorney and adoptive-parent acknowledgment lines).
"The District Clerk of Tarrant County, Texas is hereby ORDERED to utilize the following procedures regarding the handling of the Certificate of Adoption. 1. The Clerk shall complete Section 4 of the Certificate of Adoption. 2. Then, upon the request of the attorney for the adoptive parents or the adoptive parents, if they are pro se, the Certificate of Adoption will be given to the attorney or the
Reviewer note: Text-layer registration (1 page, 1,012 chars) read in full; order quoted verbatim; the day of signing is illegible in the text layer ("~day of January, 2019") so no effective date is set. Signers in 2019 included Judges Hennigan (324th), Wells (325th) and Bennett (360th); a clerk-facing order retained as a rule because it assigns the mailing step to the adoptive parents' side. Composed benchpath-ajr8-tarrant.
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