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The district judges' family standing order applying in every divorce and SAPCR (signed by the full current bench, reg. Oct. 21, 2025): property-preservation prohibitions (no harassment, threats, or bodily injury; no destroying/transferring/encumbering property; no signing the other's negotiable instruments; no altering financial records or electronically stored information/metadata; no deleting social-network content or accessing the other's accounts; no cutting off utilities/insurance/withholding), the children provisions (no removal, no disparagement, no discussing the litigation in a child's presence), the distinctive §4 mandatory 30-day information exchange (net-resources data, two years' tax returns, pay stubs, and each child's health and dental insurance details), and the standard TRO-to-temporary-injunction 14-day mechanics.
Texas > Collin County > all district courts hearing family matters — the standing order in every divorce and SAPCR; the §4 mandatory 30-day information exchange is a Collin-specific feature beyond the standard property/children/conduct provisions
SCOPE: on their own motion the district judges issue this order "which shall apply to suits for dissolution of marriage and suits affecting the parent-child relationship, for the protection of the parties and their children, and for the preservation of their property." PROPERTY AND CONDUCT (1): while the suit is pending each party is prohibited from communicating with the other in vulgar/profane/obscene language or a coarse manner with intent to annoy or alarm; threatening the other; unreasonable-hour or anonymous harassing calls; causing or threatening bodily injury to the other or a child; "destroying, removing, concealing, encumbering, transferring, or otherwise harming or reducing the value of the property"; falsifying records; misrepresenting or concealing property; damaging property; opening or diverting the other's mail or email; signing or endorsing the other's negotiable instruments (tax refund, insurance payment, dividend); terminating or limiting the other's credit or charge cards; discontinuing federal-tax withholding; destroying or altering financial records; "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"; modifying the native format or metadata of such ESI; "Deleting any data or content from any social network profile used or created by either party or a child"; "Using any password or personal identification number to gain access to the other party's e-mail account, bank account, social media account, or any other electronic account"; and terminating or affecting utilities, insurance, or contractual services (water, electricity, gas, telephone, cable, security, pest control, landscaping, yard maintenance) at the residence. CHILDREN (3): each party is prohibited from removing, disrupting, hiding, or disturbing the peace of a child, and "Each party is admonished that discussing the following topics with a child, or in a child's presence or hearing, may result in an adverse finding or ruling" — (a) disparaging remarks about the other party or their household, or (b) any aspect of the litigation not directly involving the child (claims, testimony, evidence, witnesses, pleadings, depositions, discovery), excepting brief necessary discussion such as visitation logistics or a scheduled judge interview. MANDATORY EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION (4): "Within 30 days of a parent's appearance in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship, and before any hearing on temporary orders, each parent shall produce": (4.1) information sufficient to identify that parent's net resources and child-support ability; (4.2) two years' income tax returns, a financial statement, and current pay stubs; (4.3) each child's health-insurance carrier, policy number, policy and schedule of benefits, membership card, and proof of the child's premium cost; and (4.4) the same for each child's dental insurance. SERVICE AND DURATION (5): each party attaches the order to the live pleading; "This order is effective upon the filing of an original petition and shall remain in full force and effect as a temporary restraining order for fourteen days after the date of the filing of the original petition. If no party contests this order by presenting evidence at a hearing on or before fourteen days… this order shall continue in full force and effect as a temporary injunction until further order," terminating when the court signs a final order or the case is dismissed.
Reviewer note: Registered scan composed by vision (image-only, 7 pp rendered and read page-by-page 2026-08-28); the letterhead and signature carry the full current district bench (matches the OCA roster); the operative provisions are transcribed verbatim; own-site copy at district-courts/documents/standingorderchildrenpropertyconduct.pdf; custody sha256 in the registry ledger (doc 2638).
Tenth (10th) Court of Appeals — Standing Order No. 1, as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/01/2023). The operative requirements are quoted verbatim; the registered document is the controlling text.
Tenth (10th) Court of Appeals — Standing Order No. 2, as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/01/2023). The operative requirements are quoted verbatim; the registered document is the controlling text.