About DRS North Texas
DRS North Texas explains how civil legal problems work in Texas, with a focus on Fort Worth, Dallas, Arlington, Denton, Plano and the counties around them. The name stands for Disputes, Rights & Settlements, and the guides cover those three areas: injury and accident claims, disagreements that end in mediation or small claims court, and the rights of tenants, consumers and workers.
Who the guides are written for
Most readers are not lawyers. They have a specific problem in front of them: an adjuster calling after a crash, a landlord who kept a deposit, a custody schedule that has to be mediated, a contractor who walked off the job. Each guide sets out what Texas law provides and how the process runs, step by step, in plain English. It names the statute, court rule or agency page behind each point so you can read the source text yourself.
The guides do not tell anyone what to do in their own case. They cannot weigh the facts of a particular dispute, and reading them does not make DRS North Texas your lawyer. The site has no attorney on staff and is not a substitute for one. When a reader needs advice about a specific situation, the find help page lists legal aid offices, county dispute resolution programs, bar association referral services and law libraries in the region, each linked to its own official site.
How the guides are checked
Every factual statement on the site, whether a deadline, a dollar limit, a court, a filing fee or an office address, has to come from a primary source: the statute as the Texas Legislature publishes it, the rule as the Texas courts publish it, or the page of the county, court or agency that runs the program. Secondary summaries and law firm pages are never used as authority. Each claim is logged in a fact-check ledger with the source address and the date it was read, and a claim that cannot be traced to a source is cut rather than softened. The editorial policy sets out the full method, and every guide in the full guide library shows the date its facts were last checked.
Accuracy rests on that method and on the readers who report mistakes. If you find an error, the contact page explains how to send it in.
How the site is paid for
DRS North Texas is a for-profit publication supported by advertising. Advertisers pay a flat fee for a fixed period to appear in clearly labelled spaces on city pages, section pages, guide sidebars and the mediator section of the find help page. Every one of those spaces carries the word "Advertisement" and a note that the placement is paid and is neither a ranking nor an endorsement. Payment never depends on how many readers click, call or hire anyone, and the site does not sell leads or pass reader details to advertisers. Advertisers have no say over what a guide says. The advertising page describes the terms in full.
The history of this web address
This web address was previously used by Dispute Resolution Services of North Texas, Inc. The Texas courts' FY 2014 list of alternative dispute resolution centers names that organization as the center for Fort Worth and Tarrant County, with www.drsnorthtexas.org as its website. DRS North Texas is a different publisher, run for profit, with no connection to that organization. It does not hold mediation sessions, it is not a court or county program, and nothing on this site speaks for the organization that used the address before.
If you followed an old link here looking for county mediation in Tarrant County, the county runs its own program. Tarrant County Dispute Resolution describes its mediation services for residents, businesses, organizations and the courts on the county's website, along with how to request a mediation.