Editorial Standards

Last updated: August 26, 2026

Who Writes This Site

SAFE SAPCR Texas is written and maintained by Scott Allen Willis, a pro se litigant in Harris County, Texas. He is not an attorney and does not practice law.

His qualification to write about Texas service-of-process procedure is direct experience of it: he is the plaintiff in two active Harris County proceedings arising from a default custody judgment entered without notice, has read the complete record in four cause numbers, and has drafted and filed the pleadings in both of his own cases. That is real knowledge of a narrow area. It is not a substitute for legal training, and this site does not present it as one.

Our Conflict of Interest, Stated Plainly

The person writing about Rule 239a is the person harmed by it. That is a conflict of interest and we are not going to bury it in a footer.

It cuts both ways, and readers should know both directions:

• It makes the site better informed. Very few people have read an entire Rule 239a certificate file and traced what happened next. Most legal-information sites summarize the rule; this one has litigated it.
• It makes the site interested in a conclusion. We want the SAFE SAPCR Act to pass. We believe the default judgment in our case should be set aside. Those commitments could shade emphasis, selection, and framing even when every individual fact is accurate.

Where we describe our own litigation, we label it as allegation, we say when the other side denies it, and we say when the other side has not yet had a chance to respond at all. See our research methodology.

What We Publish

Factual claims about the documented case

Sourced to Harris County District Clerk records by cause number. Every filing referenced is a public record. We will send you any of them on request. They can also be retrieved at hcdistrictclerk.com. Cause numbers appear on the page so you can check us. The District Clerk now requires a free registered account to view Civil and Family records.

General explanations of Texas procedure

Sourced to the Texas Family Code, the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, and published Texas appellate decisions, cited by section or citation so you can read the primary source rather than trusting our summary of it.

Legislative advocacy

Clearly labeled as proposals. The SAFE SAPCR Act is not law. Nothing on this site should be read as describing a bill that has passed, because none has.

What We Do Not Publish

• Legal advice. We describe how procedures generally work. We cannot tell you what to do in your case, and nothing here creates an attorney-client relationship — we are not attorneys, so no such relationship is even possible.
• Unverified claims. If we cannot point to a record, a statute, or a case, we do not assert it.
• The children's information. Names, dates of birth, schools, and identifying details of minor children never appear on this site, in any document, in any form.
• Home addresses. Including addresses that appear in public filings. The address at the center of our own case is deliberately omitted from every page.
• Findings that have not been made. No court has found fraud in our case. We do not write as though one has.

How We Label Allegations

This matters more on this site than on most, because the central subject is a contested case.

Attorney Review: We Don't Have It

No content on this site is reviewed by a licensed attorney before publication. We would like it to be. We are a single pro se litigant with no budget, and we are not going to describe a review process we do not have in order to look more authoritative than we are.

What this means for you concretely: our statutory citations are accurate to the best of our ability and we encourage you to read them, but our interpretation of how a statute applies has not been checked by anyone qualified to check it. On anything that affects your case, consult a licensed Texas family law attorney. Our legal aid directory lists free and low-cost options across Texas.

If you are a Texas family law attorney willing to review any of this material, here is exactly what that would involve — one page, and we credit the review by name on it.

Corrections

We publish a running corrections log recording every substantive factual error we have found and fixed, with dates. We think a public record of being wrong is worth more than a claim of never being wrong.

A qualification has to sit next to the claim it qualifies. Where a statement of law is only true in a narrow case, the limit belongs within about three sentences of the statement — not further down the page, and not on a page we link to. We have corrected the same claim three times because the qualification was present but too far away, and a reader arriving through a search result or an AI summary reads the paragraph, not the page. When a correction changes what a term means in practice, we update its glossary entry too, because that entry is read on its own.

Corrections are additive. When we fix an error we leave the original wording quoted in the log rather than editing it away, so the record of what we got wrong survives the fix.

To report an error, contact us with the specific claim and supporting documentation.

Funding and Independence

This site is self-funded. It accepts no payment for coverage, runs no sponsored content, and has no advertising. It is not affiliated with any law firm, and links to legal aid organizations are informational — no organization listed on our resources page has any relationship with us or has endorsed us.