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The district courts' standing order (effective Dec. 4, 2017 and re-signed by the current bench in 2023, 2024 and 2025) that district court cases involving a minor may use the minor's initials in the case style but must identify the minor by full name and full date of birth in the body of pleadings and related orders, alongside compliance with Family Code §§ 102.008 and 105.006 and TRCP 21c.
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"District Court cases filed involving a minor may identify the minor [by initials in] the style of the case, but shall identify the minor by full name and full date of birth in the body of the pleadings and related orders. In addition, parties are required to comply with Tex. Fam. Code 102.008, 105.006, and Tex. R. Civ. Pro. 21c. Signed February 2025. Effective December 4, 2017." (Footer: "Minor Children and their names 12/4/17, 5/4/23, 4/2/24, 3/1/25.")
"District Court cases filed involving a minor may identify the minor [by initials in] the style of the case, but shall identify the minor by full name and full date of birth in the body of the pleadings and related orders. In addition, parties are required to comply with Tex. Fam. Code 102.008, 105.006, and Tex. R. Civ. Pro. 21c. Signed February 2025. Effective December 4, 2017." (Footer: "Minor C
Reviewer note: Text-layer registration (1 p) read in full 2026-09-06; quoted verbatim with the OCR-damaged style clause bracketed from context (the order permits initials in the style, full names in the body). Composed benchpath-ajr8-denton. County-site receipt(s) in custody 2026-09-06: https://www.dentoncounty.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1315/Order-for-Minor-Children-and-Their-Names-PDF (identical edition); https://www.dentoncounty.gov/DocumentCenter/View/954/Standing-Order-of-District-Courts-of-Denton-County-Minor-Children-and-Their-Names-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.