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Standing order for children in the temporary or permanent managing conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services in the 326th District Court and the Child Protection Court of Taylor County: consent to psychotropic medication is exercised jointly by the primary caseworker and the guardian ad litem; a child not on psychotropic medication at removal may not be started on one without a court order, except in an emergency by agreement, with a hearing within two business days; the order covers relative and fictive kin placements and does not apply where a parent or the child is the medical consenter.
Texas > Seventh Administrative Judicial Region > Taylor County > 326th District Court, Taylor County Child Protection Court.
[File stamp: FILED, NOV 12 2020, DISTRICT CLERK, TAYLOR COUNTY, TEXAS, [signature] DEPUTY; the handwritten time and the clerk's name are partly covered by the title lettering] STANDING ORDER REGARDING PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATION IN ALL CHILD PROTECTION CASES IN THE 326TH DISTRCT COURT OF TAYLOR COUNTY AND THE CHILD PROTECTION COURT OF TAYLOR COUNTY WHEREAS there are repeated violations regarding the notifications required by Texas Family Code § 264.018 and repeated failures to disclose medical care information in court reports as required by Texas Family Code § 266.007, the 326th District Court and the Child Protection Court of Taylor County finds the following orders are necessary to protect each child and are in the best interest of each child before the Court while in the temporary or permanent managing conservatorship of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and its contractor 2INgage (hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Department”): 1. IT IS ORDERED that the right to consent to psychotropic medications shall be exercised jointly by the Department’s primary caseworker and the child’s guardian ad litem. 2. IT IS ORDERED that, if a child was not receiving any psychotropic medication at the time the child came into the Department’s conservatorship, no psychotropic medication may be administered without a court order authorizing the medication. 3. Notwithstanding the restriction in Paragraph 2 above, IT IS ORDERED that during an emergency involving an immediate danger to the health and safety of a child, the Department and the guardian ad litem may agree to place a child on psychotropic medication without prior court approval. In that event, a hearing must be held within two (2) business days after the consent is given. 4. IT IS ORDERED that this standing order shall apply to children who are in relative or fictive kin placements, as well as those in foster placements. 5. IT IS ORDERED that this standing order is effective immediately and supersedes all prior orders or designations for medical consenters, SAVE AND EXCEPT it shall not apply to cases where a parent or the child the subject of the suit is the consenter. Psychotropic medication as used herein shall have the same definition as found in Texas Family Code § 266.001. The orders above do not alter the Department’s notification duties under Texas Family Code § 264.018. Signed this 6th day of November, 2020. [signature] April R. Propst Associate Judge Child Protection Court of Taylor County [signature] Paul R. Rotenberry District Judge 326th District Court, Taylor County
[File stamp: FILED, NOV 12 2020, DISTRICT CLERK, TAYLOR COUNTY, TEXAS, [signature] DEPUTY; the handwritten time and the clerk's name are partly covered by the title lettering] STANDING ORDER REGARDING PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATION IN ALL CHILD PROTECTION CASES IN THE 326TH DISTRCT COURT OF TAYLOR COUNTY AND THE CHILD PROTECTION COURT OF TAYLOR COUNTY WHEREAS there are repeated violations regarding the
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-24 (AJR-7 Seventh Region build) from BenchPath custody sources/documents/005c50152f456230-standing-order-regarding-psychotropic-medication-in-all-child-protecti.pdf (application/pdf, 73323 bytes, sha256 005c50152f45623024012e710616bd43fc96b43194fb854789cc8f792ba8be08; 1 pages) - the TOPICs-registered document: transcribed from the rendered pages of the scanned PDF (the machine OCR layer was not relied on), every page read against the render; signature, seal and file-stamp blocks bracketed. The handwritten signing day reads "6th" at 8x magnification. An ink blot at the right margin follows the word "notification" without covering a legible character. Source spelling "DISTRCT" kept.
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.