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The district courts' standing order, adopted under Family Code §§ 6.501–6.503, 105.001 and 105.009, that applies in every divorce and every SAPCR (including modifications and enforcements) filed in Denton County and binds the parties, their agents and anyone with notice on pain of contempt: no removing children from Texas to change residence, withdrawing them from school, hiding them, changing their abode, disparaging the other party (including on social media) or discussing the litigation before them, and no overnight dating partners while in possession of a child in an original divorce; no harassing communications; in a dissolution, the full preservation-of-property regime (no transfers, new debt, withdrawals, beneficiary changes, account closures, utility shutoffs, intercepting mail or communications, excluding a spouse from the residence, altering electronic data or metadata, deleting social-network content, or using the other party's passwords) with authorizations for ordinary business, attorney's fees and living expenses; records and insurance preserved; the petitioner must attach the order to the petition or the clerk declines to issue citation; effective on filing as a 14-day TRO, then a temporary injunction until final order; protective orders prevail; parties to complete a listed parent-education and stabilization program within 60 days.
Texas > Denton County > the district courts — every divorce and suit affecting the parent-child relationship (original, modification, enforcement); binding on the parties, their officers, agents, employees and attorneys and anyone acting in concert with notice.
"No party to this lawsuit has requested this order. Rather, this order is a standing order of the Denton County District Courts that applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship ('SAPCR'), including a suit for modification or enforcement of a prior order, filed in Denton County, Texas. … IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED: 1. NO DISRUPTION OF CHILDREN. All parties are ORDERED to refrain from … 1.1 Removing the children from the State of Texas for the purpose of changing the children's domicile or residence … 1.2 Disrupting or withdrawing the children from the school or day-care facility … 1.3 Hiding or secreting the children from any other party. 1.4 Changing the children's current place of abode without the written agreement of all parties or an order of this Court … 1.5 Disturbing the peace of the children. 1.6 Making disparaging remarks in the presence of the children about another party or another party's family members … including … on a social media site or other internet site to which a child has, or may have, access. 1.7 Discussing with the children, or with any other person in the presence of the children, any divorce or SAPCR litigation … 1.8 If this is an original divorce action, allowing anyone with whom the party has a dating relationship to be in the same dwelling or on the same premises overnight while in possession of the child. Overnight is defined from 10:00 p.m. until 7:00 a.m." "3. PRESERVATION OF PROPERTY AND USE OF FUNDS DURING DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE CASE. … 3.1 Destroying, removing, concealing, encumbering, transferring, or otherwise harming or reducing the value of the property of one or both of the parties … 3.4 Selling, transferring, assigning, mortgaging, encumbering, or in any other manner alienating any of the property of either party … 3.5 Incurring any indebtedness, including cash advances from a credit card or line of credit, other than legal expense in connection with this suit … 3.6 Making withdrawals from any account in any financial institution for any purpose, except as specifically authorized by this order … 3.8 Changing a beneficiary designation on, or withdrawing or borrowing … from, any retirement, profit-sharing, pension, death, or other employee benefit plan … 3.16 Excluding a spouse from the use and enjoyment of the marital residence in which the spouse had been residing within the thirty (30) day period prior to the date the original petition for divorce was filed. … 3.19 Destroying, disposing of, or altering any e-mail, text message, video message, chat message, electronic message, or other electronic data or electronically stored information relevant to the subject matter of the divorce suit … 3.21 Deleting any data or content from any social network profile used or created by either party or a child of the parties. 3.22 Using any password or personal identification number to gain access to the other party's email account(s), bank account(s), social media account(s), or any other electronic account." "6. SPECIFIC AUTHORIZATIONS … 6.1 To engage in acts reasonably 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 commensurate with such expenditures and indebtedness incurred for the past six months. 6.4 To make withdrawals from accounts in financial institutions only for the purposes authorized by 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 an original petition is filed electronically, if the Petitioner has failed to attach a copy of this order to the petition and any copy of the petition, the Clerk shall decline to issue citation until the petition is resubmitted with a copy of this order attached … 7.2 This 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 service of the original petition. The requirement of a bond is waived. If no party contests this order within fourteen days after the date of service of the original petition, this order shall continue in full force and effect as a temporary injunction until further order of this court." "8. … If any part of this order is different from any part of a protective order that has already been entered or is later entered, the protective order provisions prevail." "10. PARENT EDUCATION AND STABILIZATION. If this is a suit affecting or seeking modification of the parent-child relationship, all parties are ORDERED to attend one of the following parent education and stabilization programs within sixty (60) days of the date of filing or service of the suit, as applicable: 10.1 Children in the Middle … 10.2 Divorce Sanity Co-Parenting … 10.3 Online Parenting Program … Proof of completion of the program must be filed with the court upon meeting this requirement."
"No party to this lawsuit has requested this order. Rather, this order is a standing order of the Denton County District Courts that applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship ('SAPCR'), including a suit for modification or enforcement of a prior order, filed in Denton County, Texas. … IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED: 1. NO DISRUPTION OF CHILDREN. All parties are
Reviewer note: Text-layer registration (4 pp, 14,780 chars) read in full 2026-09-06; the operative prohibitions, authorizations, service/effect and parent-education provisions quoted verbatim, the remaining property/records/insurance clauses summarized. Signed by the district judges (Dickens, Alexander and the 442nd/481st benches legible). Composed benchpath-ajr8-denton. County-site receipt(s) in custody 2026-09-06: https://www.dentoncounty.gov/DocumentCenter/View/4147/Denton-County-Standing-Orders-PDF (February 15, 2022 (superseded) edition); https://www.dentoncounty.gov/DocumentCenter/View/6746/Denton-County-Standing-Order-PDF (December 30, 2022 (superseded) edition); https://www.dentoncounty.gov/DocumentCenter/View/710/Standing-Order-Regarding-Children-Property-and-Conduct-of-Parties-PDF (identical edition); https://www.dentoncounty.gov/DocumentCenter/View/958/District-Court-Standing-Order-Regarding-Children-Property-and-Conduct-of-Parties-PDF (identical edition).
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.