Judge Eric Berg’s standing order requiring parents in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship or a divorce action in the Washington County Court at Law to attend the "Kids First" program (or a comparable parenting program) before obtaining a final-hearing setting: certificates of attendance for both parents must be filed with the District Clerk before the final hearing, and failure to attend and file the certificate by the final hearing may be punished by contempt or loss of visitation privileges until completed. Comparable programs (including named online options) are accepted.
Texas > Washington County > County Court at Law (Judge Eric Thomas Berg) — divorce and SAPCR parents. Supplements the shared 21st/335th local rules’ parent-education requirement.
CAUSE NO. ______ IN THE MATTER OF THE MARRIAGE OF ______ AND ______ § IN THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, TEXAS STANDING ORDER, "KIDS FIRST" PROGRAM IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Parents in a Suit Affecting Parent Child Relationship or Divorce Action shall attend the "Kids First" program or a similar program prior to obtaining a setting on a final hearing. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that c
Reviewer note: Image-only registration (one page) read in full through the vision lane; operative provisions quoted verbatim; signed by Judge Eric Berg 2016. Carries provider contact details (contact-freshness set). Composed benchpath-ajr2-quad. Text recomposed 2026-09-08 (Phase 3c): text-layer artifacts corrected (escape leaks, dropped spaces, single-token OCR mis-reads); wording unchanged. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 208d53ea8b33..., 1 page(s), image-only scan; the OCR layer used as a typing base and corrected word by word from the page) read against the rendered file; 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.
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