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No litigant or other person with business in the civil district courts or their staff offices (District Clerk, Staff Attorney's Office, Children's Court, Family Drug Court, Early Intervention Program, Domestic Relations Office, Law Library and the courts' bailiffs) may use threatening, harassing or profane language or racial, ethnic, gender-related or religious slurs; all must be courteous and professional to judges and staff, must leave immediately when told to by a judge, bailiff or supervisory staff, and are warned that threats against judges or staff (verbal, written, social media or email) will be reported to the District Attorney; violations may draw a show-cause order before the Presiding Civil District Court and contempt (up to six months' jail and $500 per violation under Government Code § 21.002); the order is posted in every civil district court and staff office.
Applies to everyone doing business with the 37th, 45th, 57th, 73rd, 131st, 150th, 166th, 224th, 225th, 285th, 288th, 407th, 408th and 438th District Courts of Bexar County and their staff offices. Fourteen 2019 signers, several since departed; no judge join. Not registered on TOPICs; posted by the Civil District Courts (a second, image-only copy is posted on the Children's Court page). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
SPECIAL ORDER NO. 72116. BEXAR COUNTY, STATE OF TEXAS. DECORUM ORDER — BEXAR COUNTY CIVIL DISTRICT COURTS. The Courts find that there is a need for the issuance of this Order which delineates the conduct which is considered appropriate and inappropriate in the Civil District Courts and adjunct staff offices. The Courts further find that this order shall apply to all litigants and other persons doing business with the Civil District Courts and staff offices which include the Bexar County District Clerk, Bexar County Staff Attorney's Office, Bexar County Children's Court, Family Drug Court, Early Intervention Program, Domestic Relations Office, Bexar County Law Library and the Bexar County Sheriff's Department bailiffs assigned to the Civil District Courts (hereinafter referred to as "staff offices"). IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED THAT: 1. No litigant or other person with business in the Civil District Courts and staff offices, shall use language which is threatening, harassing, contains expletives or contains racial, ethnic, gender-related or religious slurs. 2. All litigants or other persons with business in the Civil District Courts and the staff offices, shall conduct themselves in a courteous and professional manner when addressing the Judge of the Court and staff members. 3. When asked to leave the Court by a Judge or bailiff or, with respect to the staff offices, when asked to leave by supervisory staff, the litigant or other person with business before the Civil District Courts or staff offices, shall immediately leave that Courtroom or staff office. 4. All litigants and persons with business before the District Courts and staff offices should be aware that threats against Judges or Staff verbally, in writing, on social media, or by email will result in the filing of an offense report and referral to the District Attorney's Office for possible prosecution. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that should a litigant or person with business before the District Courts or staff offices, violate this Order, a Show Cause Order may be issued commanding the person alleged to have violated this order to appear before the Presiding Civil District Court and show cause why they should not be held in contempt. A FINDING OF CONTEMPT MAY BE PUNISHED BY CONFINEMENT IN JAIL FOR UP TO SIX MONTHS, A FINE OF UP TO $500 FOR EACH VIOLATION OR BOTH SUCH FINE AND CONFINEMENT IN JAIL. (Government Code sec. 21.002) IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this order shall be posted in every Civil District Court and all staff offices of the Civil District Courts. SIGNED 8/28/19. Judge Michael Mery, 37th District Court; Judge Cathleen Stryker, 224th District Court; Judge Mary Lou Alvarez, 45th District Court; Judge Peter Sakai, 225th District Court; Judge Antonia Arteaga, 57th District Court; Judge Aaron Haas, 285th District Court; Judge David Canales, 73rd District Court; Judge Cynthia Marie Chapa, 288th District Court; Judge Norma Gonzales, 131st District Court; Judge Karen Pozza, 407th District Court; Judge Monique Diaz, 150th District Court; Judge Angelica Jimenez, 408th District Court; Judge Laura Salinas, 166th District Court; Judge Rosie Alvarado, 438th District Court. [Recorded 09/09/2019, Vol. 5177 Pg. 2853–2855; certified copy of the District Clerk (Mary Angie Garcia) September 9, 2019; case number 2019XX72116.]
SPECIAL ORDER NO. 72116. BEXAR COUNTY, STATE OF TEXAS. DECORUM ORDER — BEXAR COUNTY CIVIL DISTRICT COURTS. The Courts find that there is a need for the issuance of this Order which delineates the conduct which is considered appropriate and inappropriate in the Civil District Courts and adjunct staff offices. The Courts further find that this order shall apply to all litigants and other persons doi
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-08 from BenchPath's own-site custody copy (four pages; the OCR text layer is degraded, so items 1–4 and the signature pages were read through the vision lane and transcribed from the render; page 4 is the clerk's certificate).
A standing order of the 97th Judicial District Court sealing the files in cases in which Child Protective Services or the Department of Family and Protective Services appears as petitioner, in the counties comprising the 97th Judicial District.
Dallas County Standing Order Regarding Children, Pets, Property and Conduct of the Parties (Family District Courts General Orders, current edition F2026/05, revised Jan. 31, 2026 — a re-adoption of the same operative text by the current bench: Hon. Kim Brown (254th), Vonda Bailey (255th), Sandre Streete (256th), Ashley Wysocki (301st), Sandra Jackson (302nd), LaDeitra Adkins (303rd), and Andrea D. Plumlee (330th)), as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/11/2023). The order "applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in Dallas County" automatically, without request: child-disruption prohibitions, pet protection, party-conduct restraints, divorce-case property/records/insurance freezes with specific authorizations, mandatory petition attachment, and its TRO-to-temporary-injunction lifecycle.