Rule 2.2 - Clerk's Duties(a)Assistance in filing. The clerk must give prompt assistance - in a manner designed to protect the minor's confidentiality and anonymity - to persons seeking to file an application. If requested, the clerk must administer the oath required for the verification page or provide a person authorized to do so. The clerk should also redact from the cover page any information identifying the minor. The clerk should ensure that both the cover page and the separate verification page are completed in full.(b)Filing procedure. The clerk must assign the application a cause number and affix it to both the cover page and the verification page. The clerk must then provide a certified copy of the verification page to the person filing the application. The clerk must file the verification page under seal in a secure place where access is limited to essential court personnel.(c)Distribution. When an application is filed, the clerk must distribute the cover page and verification page, or a copy of them, to the appropriate court instanter. If appointment of a specific person as guardian ad litem has been requested, the clerk must also communicate the information to the appropriate court instanter.(d)If judge of assigned court not present in county. The clerk must determine instanter whether the judge of the court to which the application is assigned is present in the county. If that judge is not present in the county, the clerk must instanter notify the local administrative judge or judges and the presiding judge of the administrative judicial region and must send them any information requested, including the cover page and verification page.(e)Notice of hearing and appointments. When the clerk is advised by the court of a time for hearing or an appointment of a guardian ad litem or attorney ad litem, the clerk must instanter give notice - as directed in the verification page and to each appointee - of the hearing time or appointment. A court coordinator or other court personnel may give notice instead of the clerk.(f)Orders. The clerk must provide the minor's attorney and the guardian ad litem with copies of all court orders, including findings of fact and conclusions of law.(g)Certificate of court's failure to rule within time prescribed by statute. If the court fails to rule on an application within the time required by Section 33.002(g) and (h), Family Code, upon the minor's request, the clerk must instanter issue a certificate to that effect, stating that the application is deemed by statute to be granted. The clerk may use Form 2E but is not required to do so.Tex. Parent. Noti. R. And. Form. 2.2
Amended effective 3/1/2007.