Standing order of the 143rd District Court: no final contested divorce trial is set without a certified attempt at mediation or other ADR, or a joint request for final contested hearing stating the issues and time needed; the court may order mediation; in pro se divorces the court may appoint an amicus attorney, ADR attempts are required, and pro se parties share the cost of any amicus or court-ordered mediation.
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[File stamp: 01-08-25 FILED 2:15PM, JULIA PEREZ PUTNAM, CLERK DISTRICT COURT, REEVES COUNTY, TEXAS, BY: [signature] DEP: ________] [File stamp: 1,7,25 FILED A M., VALERIE ROMO, DISTRICT CLERK, WARD CO. TX 9:58, [signature] DEPUTY] 143RD DISTRICT COURT STANDING ORDER REGARDING DIVORCE SUITS The Court ORDERS that in all Suits for Divorce, no final contested trial, by court or by jury, shall be se
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-25 (AJR-7 Seventh Region build, own-site layer) from BenchPath custody ajr7 corpus sources/documents/fcfb90c44b70f751-standing-order-divorces.pdf (317,192 bytes, sha256 fcfb90c44b70f751f835837956c86cb82fc895b739221f6ed76ee94daeecc033; 1 page(s)) - the document the Reeves County website posts (https://www.reevescounty.org/home/showpublisheddocument/3744/638723813939370000), not registered with the Office of Court Administration's TOPICs registry as of 2026-09-25: transcribed by eye from the rendered pages of the scanned file (no machine text relied on) and read a second time against the page images - for long documents word by word against an independent machine OCR of the same scan, every disagreement and every handwritten entry resolved on the image; signature, seal and file-stamp blocks bracketed. Signed: Alan Nicholas, Judge Presiding (January 7, 2025). Sibling row: the instrument is issued by a court that also serves Ward County (or names it); the text is published from the Reeves County posting. The same instrument is also posted on the Ward County website: https://www.co.ward.tx.us/upload/page/7227/docs/2025/Standing%20Order%20Regard%20Divorce%20Suits.pdf (606,051 bytes, sha256 9070e2b0f80b79c6...; read 2026-09-25).
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.
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