The 97th Judicial District Court's standing temporary injunction in family law cases, enjoining both parties from a list of acts concerning communication, harassment, and the property and records of the parties while the case is pending.
Applies in family law cases before the 97th Judicial District Court in Clay County; both parties are bound. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
STANDING TEMPORARY INJUNCTION IN FAMILY LAW CASES PURSUANT TO 97TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT The parties are hereby enjoined as follows: 1. Communicating with the other party in person, by telephone, or in writing in vulgar, profane, obscene or indecent language or in a coarse of offensive manner; 2. Threatening the other party in person, by telephone, or in writing to take unlawful action against any person; 3. Placing one or more telephone calls, anonymously, at any unreasonable hour, in an offensive and repetitious manner, or without a legitimate purpose of communication; 4. Destroying, removing, concealing, encumbering, transferring, or otherwise harming or reducing the value of the property of one or both of the parties; 5. Falsifying any writing or record relating to the property of either party; 6. 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; 7. Damaging or destroying the tangible personal property of one or both of the parties, including any document that represents or embodies anything of value; 8. Tampering with the tangible personal 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; 9. Selling, transferring, assigning, mortgaging, encumbering, or in any other manner alienating any of the property of any party, whether personalty or realty, and whether separate or community, except as specifically authorized by this order; 10. Incurring any indebtedness, other than legal expenses in connection with this suit, except as specifically authorized by this order; 11. Making withdrawals from any checking or savings account in any financial institution for any purpose, except as specifically authorized by this order; 12. Spending any sum of cash in the party's possession or subject to the party's control for any purpose, except as specifically authorized by this order; 13. 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; 14. Entering any safety-deposit box in the name of or subject to the control of any party, whether individually or jointly with others; 15. Withdrawing or borrowing in any manner all or any part of the cash surrender value of life insurance policies on the life of any party, except as specifically authorized by this order; 16. Changing or in any manner altering the beneficiary designation on any life insurance on the life of any party or the parties' child; 17. Cancelling, altering, failing to renew or pay premiums, or in any manner affecting the present level of coverage on any life, casualty, automobile, or health insurance policies insuring the parties' property or persons, including the parties' child; 18. Opening or diverting mail addressed to the other party; 19. 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; 20. Taking any action to terminate or limit credit or charge cards in the name of the other party; 21. Discontinuing or reducing the withholding for federal income taxes on any parties' wages or salary while the case is pending; 22. Destroying, disposing of, or altering any financial records of the parties, including but not limited to records from financial institutions (including canceled checks and deposit slips), all records of credit purchases or cash advances, tax returns, and financial statements; 23. Destroying, disposing of, or altering any e-mail or other electronic data relevant to the subject matter of this case, whether stored on a hard drive or on a diskette or other electronic storage device; 24. 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 any property owned, rented or otherwise controlled by any party, or in any manner attempting to withdraw any deposits for service in connection with those services; 25. Excluding the other party from the use and enjoyment of any residence owned, rented or otherwise controlled by any party; 26. Entering, operating, or exercising control over the motor vehicle in the possession of the other party; 27. Disturbing the peace of any child or of another party; 28. Withdrawing any child from enrollment in the school or day-care facility where the child is presently enrolled; 29. Withdrawing any child from enrollment in the school or day-care facility where the child is presently enrolled; 30. Hiding or secreting the child or children from the other party; 31. Making disparaging remarks regarding the other party's family in the presence or within the hearing of any child or children; 32. Consuming alcohol within the twelve (12) hours before or during the period of possession of or access to the child or children; and 33. Permitting an unrelated adult with whom the party has an intimate or dating relationship to remain in the same residence with the child between the hours of 10 P.M. and 6 A.M. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the parties are authorized only as follow: 1. To make expenditures and incur indebtedness for any reasonable and necessary living expenses for food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and medical care; 2. To make expenditures and incur indebtedness for reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses in connection with this suit; 3. To make withdrawals from accounts in financial institutions only for the purposes authorized by this order; 4. To engage in acts reasonable and necessary to conduct each party's usual business and occupation; For the purposes of this standing temporary order, "personal property" includes, but is not limited to, the following: a. Cash, checks, traveler's checks, and money orders; b. Funds on deposit in financial accounts with commercial banks, savings banks, and credit unions; c. Funds and assets held in brokerage, mutual fund, and other investment accounts; d. Publicly trades stocks. Bonds, and other securities; e. Stock options and restricted stock units; f. Bonuses; g. Closely held business interests; h. Retirement benefits and accounts; i. Deferred compensation benefits; j. Insurance policies, annuities, and health savings accounts; k. Motor vehicles, boats, airplanes, cycles, mobile homes, trailers, and recreational vehicles; l. Money owed to one or both parties, including notes and expected income tax refunds; m. Household furniture and furnishings, and fixtures; n. Electronics and computers; o. Antiques, artwork, and collections; p. Sporting good and firearms; q. Jewelry and other personal items; r. Pets and livestock s. Club memberships t. Travel rewards benefits and other award accounts; u. Crops, farm equipment, construction equipment, tools, leases, cemetery lots, gold or silver coins not part of a collection, tax overpayments, loss carry-forward deductions, lottery tickets/winnings, stadium bonds, stadium seat licenses, seat options, season tickets, ranch brands, and business names; v. Digital assets such as e-mail addresses, social network accounts, Web sites, domain names, digital media such as pictures, music, e-books, movies, and videos, blogs, reward points, digital storefronts, artwork, and data storage accounts; w. Virtual assets such as virtual pets, avatars, accessories for virtual characters, virtual prizes, virtual real estate, and virtual currency; x. Safe-deposit boxes and their contents y. Storage facilities and their contents; and z. Contingent assets. Signed this 17th day of March 2020. [signature] Jack A McGaughey, Judge Presiding
STANDING TEMPORARY INJUNCTION IN FAMILY LAW CASES PURSUANT TO 97TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT The parties are hereby enjoined as follows: 1. Communicating with the other party in person, by telephone, or in writing in vulgar, profane, obscene or indecent language or in a coarse of offensive manner; 2. Threatening the other party in person, by telephone, or in writing to take unlawful action against a
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the TOPICs custody scan (text read in full; identical to Archer 1037). Tri-county 97th District Court order registered per county (Archer 1037, Clay 1042, Montague 1049); composed on the Clay 97th District Court row. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 022a3f3fb757..., 4 page(s), digital layer that failed the machine checks; text taken from the layer and corrected word by word from the page) read against the rendered file; verbatim, source typos kept, stamps/signatures bracketed; the earlier abstract replaced by the full instrument; confidence high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21]
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.