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The five county criminal courts' standing order (SO-2023-0001, Feb. 22, 2023; Judges Lauri Ragland, Susan Piel, Forrest Beadle, Chance Oliver and Coby Waddill): when a signed Certificate of Call is filed in a misdemeanor case — the court's certification that the defendant failed to appear when the case was called — the County Clerk issues an alias capias warrant unless there is already an active warrant on the case.
Texas > Denton County > County Criminal Courts Nos. 1–5 — misdemeanor defendants who fail to appear (warrant consequence), defense counsel and the County Clerk.
"ON THIS DATE, the Presiding Judges of the County Criminal Courts of Denton County, Texas, this orders the County Clerk to issue an alias capias warrant upon the filing of a signed Certificate of Call unless there is already an active warrant on the case. ORDER ENTERED by the elected Judges of the County Criminal Courts for Denton County do hereby indicate their approval to the entry of this Standing Order on the 22nd day of February, 2023."
"ON THIS DATE, the Presiding Judges of the County Criminal Courts of Denton County, Texas, this orders the County Clerk to issue an alias capias warrant upon the filing of a signed Certificate of Call unless there is already an active warrant on the case. ORDER ENTERED by the elected Judges of the County Criminal Courts for Denton County do hereby indicate their approval to the entry of this Stand
Reviewer note: Own-site document (image-only, 1 p) read through the pypdfium2 vision lane 2026-09-06 and transcribed verbatim; signed by all five current county criminal court judges (spine: Ragland CCC1, Piel CCC2, Beadle CCC3, Oliver CCC4, Waddill CCC5). Composed as a county-level rule spanning the five courts (court-less) benchpath-ajr8-denton (own-site lane).
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.
General Order of the Civil District Courts sitting in Dallas County (signed April 6, 2020 by the thirteen civil presiding judges), as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 10/07/2023): the 25-page limit on motions and briefs with formatting floors — the instrument the individual courts' policies cite as the amended page-limit rule.