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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.
Texas > Dallas County > every divorce and SAPCR filing; the family district courts (254th, 255th, 256th, 301st, 302nd, 303rd, 330th District Courts)
SCOPE: "this order is a standing order of the Dallas County District Courts that applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in Dallas County." 1. NO DISRUPTION OF CHILDREN — all parties ORDERED to refrain from: removing the children from Texas to change residence without written agreement of both parties or a court order (1.1); disrupting or withdrawing the children from their current school or day-care without the same (1.2); hiding or secreting the children or changing their abode without the same (1.3); disturbing the peace of the children (1.4); disparaging the other party in the children's presence or hearing (1.5); discussing the litigation with or in the presence of a child (1.6). 2. PROTECTION OF FAMILY PETS: all parties ORDERED to refrain from "harming, threatening, interfering with the care, custody, or control of a pet or companion animal" possessed by a protected person or their family or household. 3. CONDUCT OF THE PARTIES: no vulgar/profane/obscene communication intended to annoy or alarm (3.1); no threats of unlawful action (3.2); no unreasonable-hour, offensive, repetitious, or anonymous calls or texts intended to alarm or annoy (3.3); no illegal interception or recording of the other party's electronic communications (3.4); no causing or threatening bodily injury to the other party or a child (3.5–3.6). 4. PROPERTY AND FUNDS (divorce cases): both parties ORDERED to refrain from destroying, removing, concealing, encumbering, transferring or harming property (4.1); falsifying records (4.2); misrepresenting or refusing to disclose property on proper request (4.3); selling or otherwise alienating property of either party "whether separate or community, except as specifically authorized by this order" (4.6); incurring indebtedness other than legal expenses for the suit (4.7); withdrawals from any checking or savings account except as authorized (4.8); spending cash except as authorized (4.9); withdrawing or borrowing from any retirement or benefit plan (4.10); signing the other party's name on negotiable instruments (4.11); destroying financial records (4.12); deleting emails, texts, chats, social-media messages or other ESI relevant to the suit, on any storage medium (4.13); altering native format or metadata of relevant ESI (4.14); deleting social-network data (4.15); using passwords or PINs to access the other party's accounts (4.16); terminating the other party's cards (4.17); taking the vehicle in the other party's possession (4.18); reducing tax withholding (4.19); terminating utilities or contractual services at the other party's residence (4.20); excluding the other party from their identified residence (4.21); opening or redirecting the other party's mail or email (4.22). 5–6. RECORDS AND INSURANCE (divorce cases): no concealing or destroying family/property/financial/business records (5.1); no withdrawing life-insurance cash value, changing beneficiary designations, or affecting casualty, automobile, or health policies (6.1–6.3). 7. SPECIFIC AUTHORIZATIONS (divorce cases): acts reasonable and necessary to the party's usual business and occupation; reasonable attorney's fees and suit expenses; reasonable and necessary living expenses; withdrawals only for authorized purposes. 8. SERVICE AND APPLICATION: "The Petitioner shall attach a copy of this order to the original petition and to each copy of the petition"; if not attached, "the Clerk shall ensure that a copy of this order is attached"; the order "is effective upon the 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 the filing"; uncontested, it "shall continue in full force and effect as a temporary injunction until further order of the court," terminating at the final decree. 9. "If any part of this order is different from any part of a protective order … the protective order provisions prevail." 11. BOND WAIVED.
Reviewer note: CURRENT-EDITION VERIFIED BY VISION (2026-08-28): the county-posted F2026/05 edition (juvenile/305/F2026-05-REVISED-STANDING-ORDER.pdf, pages 2-5 image-only, rendered and read page-by-page; custody sha in the crawl ledger) is a RE-ADOPTION of the registered F2023/08 text — provision-by-provision probe found no substantive change (secs. 1-11 incl. 4.13-4.22 ESI provisions all present in both) — with a new effective date ("SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE ON JANUARY 31, 2026") and the current seven family judges' signatures (Brown 254th, Wysocki 301st, Bailey 255th, Jackson 302nd, Streete 256th, Adkins 303rd, Plumlee 330th — matching the OCA bench); composed text remains the verbatim operative provisions (registered custody doc 1033 receipted as the registration of record); heavy OCR interleaving in the registered scan normalized on unambiguous letterforms.
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.