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Bowie County's standing order for every divorce and parent-child case: no disruption of children (no removal from Texas, no change of school, no hiding a child or changing its abode, no disturbing its peace); conduct of the parties (no vulgar or threatening communications, no harassing calls, no diverting or deleting mail or electronic messages, no destroying electronically stored information, no tracking or monitoring the other party's property or vehicle); preservation of property and use of funds in a divorce (fourteen prohibited acts); personal and business records including electronic data, social-network content and account passwords; insurance; the specific authorizations for ordinary business, attorney's fees, living expenses and authorized withdrawals; service with the petition and the fourteen-day TRO / temporary-injunction effect; the priority of protective orders; and encouragement to mediate.
Texas > Tenth Administrative Judicial Region > Bowie County > the district courts and the County Court at Law. By its own terms the order applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in Bowie County; effective March 6, 2024 (the printed February 8, 2017 date is struck through and replaced by hand).
BOWIE COUNTY STANDING ORDER REGARDING CHILDREN, PROPERTY AND CONDUCT OF THE PARTIES No party to this lawsuit has requested this order. Rather, this order is a standing order of the Bowie County District Courts and Bowie County Court at Law that applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in Bowie County. The District Courts of Bowie County have adopted this order because the parties and their children should be protected and their property preserved while the lawsuit is pending before the court. Therefore, it is ORDERED: 1. NO DISRUPTION OF CHILDREN. Both parties are ORDERED to refrain from doing the following acts concerning any children who are subjects of this case: 1.1 Removing the children from the State of Texas, acting directly or in concert with others, without the written agreement of both parties or an order of this Court. 1.2 Disrupting or withdrawing the children from the school or day-care facility where the children are presently enrolled, without the written agreement of both parents or an order of this Court. 1.3 Hiding or secreting the children from the other parent or changing the children's current place of abode, without the written agreement of both parents or an order of this Court. 1.4 Disturbing the peace of the children. 2. CONDUCT OF THE PARTIES DURING THE CASE. Both parties are ORDERED to refrain from doing the following acts: 2.1 Using vulgar, profane, obscene, or indecent language, or a coarse or offensive manner, to communicate with the other party, whether in person, by telephone, or in writing. 2.2 Threatening the other party in person, by telephone, or in writing to take unlawful action against any person. 2.3 Placing one or more telephone calls, at an unreasonable hour, in an offensive or repetitious manner, without a legitimate purpose of communication, or anonymously. 2.4 Opening, diverting, destroying or deleting mail, electronic mail ("email"), or other electronic communications, chats, or texts, addressed to the other party. 2.5 Destroying disposing of, or altering any e-mail, text message, video message, or chat message or other electronic data or electronically stored information relevant to the subject matter of the suit for dissolution of the marriage or suit affecting the parent-child relationship, regardless of whether the information is stored on a hard drive, in a removable storage device, in cloud storage, or in other electronic storage medium. 2.6 Tracking or monitoring personal property or a motor vehicle in the possession of a party, without that party's effective consent, including by: (A) using a tracking application on a personal electronic device in the possession of that party or using a tracking device; or (B) physically following that party or causing another to physically follow that party. 3. PRESERVATION OF PROPERTY AND USE OF FUNDS DURING DIVORCE CASE. If this is a divorce case, both parties to the marriage are ORDERED to refrain from doing the following acts: 3.1 Destroying, removing, concealing, encumbering, transferring, or otherwise harming or reducing the value of the property of one or both of the parties. 3.2 Misrepresenting or refusing to disclose to the other party or to the Court, on proper request, the existence, amount, or location of any property of one or both of the parties. 3.3 Damaging or destroying the tangible property of one or both of the parties, including any document that represents or embodies anything of value. 3.4 Tampering with the tangible property of one or both of the parties, including any document that represents or embodies anything of value, and causing pecuniary loss to the other party. 3.5 Selling, transferring, assigning, mortgaging, encumbering, or in any other manner alienating any of the property of either party, whether personal property or real estate property, and whether separate or community, except as specifically authorized by this order. 3.6 Incurring any indebtedness, other than legal expenses in connection with this suit, except as specifically authorized by this order. 3.7 Making withdrawals from any checking or savings account in any financial institution for any purpose, except as specifically authorized by this order. 3.8 Spending any sum of cash in either party's possession or subject to either party's control for any purpose, except as specifically authorized by this order. 3.9 Withdrawing or borrowing in any manner for any purpose from any retirement, profit-sharing, pension, death, or other employee benefit plan or employee savings plan or from any individual retirement account or Keogh account, except as specifically authorized by this order. 3.10 Signing or endorsing the other party's name on any negotiable instrument, check, or draft, such as tax refunds, insurance payments, and dividends, or attempting to negotiate any negotiable instrument payable to the other party without the personal signature of the other party. 3.11 Taking any action to terminate or limit credit or charge cards in the name of the other party. 3.12 Entering, operating, or exercising control over the motor vehicle in the possession of the other party. 3.13 Discontinuing or reducing the withholding for federal income taxes on wages or salary while this suit is pending. 3.14 Terminating or in any manner affecting the service of water, electricity, gas, telephone, cable television, or other contractual services, such as security, pest control, landscaping, or yard maintenance at the other party's residence or in any manner attempting to withdraw any deposits for service in connection with such services. 4. PERSONAL AND BUSINESS RECORDS IN DIVORCE CASE. If this is a divorce case, both parties to the marriage are ORDERED to refrain from doing the following acts: 4.1 Concealing or destroying any family records, property records, financial records, business records or any records of income, debts, or other obligations. 4.2 Falsifying any writing or record relating to the property of either party. 4.3 "Records" include e-mail or other digital or electronic data, whether stored on a computer hard drive, diskette or other electronic storage devise, including a phone or online. 4.4 Deleting any data or content from any social network profile used or created by either party or a child of the parties. 4.5 Using any password or personal identification number to gain access to the other party's email, texts, social media account, or any other electronic account regardless of the device upon which the account may be accessed. 5. INSURANCE IN DIVORCE CASE. If this is a divorce case, both parties to the marriage are ORDERED to refrain from doing the following acts: 5.1 Withdrawing or borrowing in any manner all or any part of the cash surrender value of life insurance policies on the life of either party, except as specifically authorized by this order. 5.2 Changing or in any manner altering the beneficiary designation on any life insurance on the life of either party or the parties' children. 5.3 Canceling, altering, or in any manner affecting any casualty, automobile, or health insurance policies insuring the parties' property of persons including the parties' minor children. 6. SPECIFIC AUTHORIZATIONS IN DIVORCE CASE. If this is a divorce case, both parties to the marriage are specifically authorized to do the following: 6.1 To engage in acts reasonable and necessary to the conduct of that party's usual business and occupation. 6.2 To make expenditures and incur indebtedness for reasonable attorney's fees and expenses in connection with this suit. 6.3 To make expenditures and incur indebtedness for reasonable and necessary living expenses for food, clothing, shelter, transportation and medical care. 6.4 To make withdrawals from accounts in financial institutions only for the purposes authorized by this order. 7. SERVICE AND APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER. 7.1 The Petitioner shall attach a copy of this order to the original petition and to each copy of the petition. At the time the petition is filed, if the Petitioner has failed to attach a copy of this order to the petition and any copy of the petition, the Clerk shall ensure that a copy of this order is attached to the petition and every copy of the petition presented. 7.2 This order is effective upon filing of the original petition and shall remain in full force and effect as a temporary restraining order for fourteen days after the date of filing of the original petition. If no party contests this order by presenting evidence at a hearing on or before fourteen days after the date of the filing of the original petition, this order shall continue in full force and effect as a temporary injunction until further order of this court. This entire order will terminate and will no longer be effective once the court signs a final order. 8. EFFECT OF OTHER COURT ORDERS. If any part of this order is different from any party of a protective order that has already been entered or is later entered, the protective order provisions prevail. Any part of this order not changed by some later order remains in full force and effect until the court signs a final decree. 9. PARTIES ENCOURAGED TO MEDIATE. The parties are encouraged to settle their disputes amicably without court intervention. The parties are encouraged to use alternative dispute resolution methods, such as mediation, to resolve the conflicts that may arise in this lawsuit. THIS BOWIE COUNTY STANDING ORDER REGARDING CHILDREN, PROPERTY AND CONDUCT OF THE PARTIES SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE ON March 6, 2024 [the printed date February 8, 2017 is struck through and the new date is handwritten]. [signature] Craig Henry, Judge Presiding County Court At Law [signature] Bill Miller, Judge Presiding 5th Judicial District Court [signature] Jeff Addison, Judge Presiding 102nd Judicial District Court [signature] John Tidwell, Judge Presiding 202nd Judicial District Court [The registered copy (TOPICs 1844) carries no file stamp. The copy of this order appended to the Bowie County local rules (TOPICs 3038, page 26) is stamped FILED FOR RECORD 2024 MAR -7 AM 8:24, Lori Caraway, District Clerk, Bowie Co. TX, and bears the handwritten general order number 24GO011-005.]
BOWIE COUNTY STANDING ORDER REGARDING CHILDREN, PROPERTY AND CONDUCT OF THE PARTIES No party to this lawsuit has requested this order. Rather, this order is a standing order of the Bowie County District Courts and Bowie County Court at Law that applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in Bowie County. The District Courts of Bowie County have adopt
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-19 (AJR-10 Tenth Region build) from BenchPath custody sources/registered/1844.pdf (application/pdf, 140197 bytes, sha256 46ee1fbab324dd100f8e9366b6d27d7b18e86d834de048f116e2197b95afa7b4; 5 pages) - the TOPICs-registered document: digital text layer normalised (whitespace, hyphenation, page furniture) and every page checked against the rendered PDF; signature and file-stamp blocks bracketed. Five-page digital text layer checked against the render; the effective date on page 5 is handwritten over the struck 2017 date. CORRECTION 2026-09-20: the PDF is a scan with a machine OCR layer. All five pages were re-read by eye and the text retyped: the section and item numerals now sit on their own provisions (the OCR layer had stacked several of them out of place and dropped 3.9 and 3.14), 'communication' in item 2.3 is restored, and hard line wraps and page-break characters are removed. The file stamp and general order number 24GO011-005 quoted on 2026-09-19 are not on this registered copy; they are on the copy appended to the Bowie County local rules (TOPICs 3038, page 26), and the closing note now says so.
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.