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The district judges' standing order in every Family Code suit authorizing all litigation participants (parties, counsel and staff, testing facilities and laboratories, experts, evaluators, parenting facilitators and coordinators, mental-health professionals, witnesses, mediators, arbitrators and courts) to disclose, receive and use drug test records and the protected health information in them for the pending litigation without further HIPAA or Texas Medical Privacy Act authorization — and for no other purpose — with notice that such information is subject to electronic disclosure.
Texas > Denton County > the district courts — every suit under the Texas Family Code.
"On their own motion, the district judges issue this standing order, which shall apply to every suit filed under the Texas Family Code. 1.1 'Drug Test Records' shall include all information and records relating to drug testing, and any protected health information of any person contained therein … 1.2 'Litigation Participants' shall include the following people associated with the litigation: parties, counsel of record, other attorneys and staff within their firms, drug testing facilities, drug testing laboratories, copy services, other litigation support services, testifying experts, consulting experts, custody evaluators, psychological evaluators, parenting facilitators, parenting coordinators, mental health professionals, witnesses, mediators, arbitrators, and courts. 2.1 IT IS ORDERED that all Litigation Participants are authorized to disclose, receive, and use Drug Test Records in connection with the pending litigation, without need for further authorization or court order under HIPAA, the Texas Medical Privacy Act, or other law. This court order does not authorize any person to disclose, receive, or use protected health information for any purpose other than the pending litigation. NOTICE: ANY PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION RECEIVED AS A RESULT OF THIS COURT ORDER IS SUBJECT TO ELECTRONIC DISCLOSURE. SIGNED FEBRUARY 27TH, 2025."
"On their own motion, the district judges issue this standing order, which shall apply to every suit filed under the Texas Family Code. 1.1 'Drug Test Records' shall include all information and records relating to drug testing, and any protected health information of any person contained therein … 1.2 'Litigation Participants' shall include the following people associated with the litigation: part
Reviewer note: Text-layer registration (2 pp, 2,519 chars) read in full 2026-09-06; quoted verbatim. Composed benchpath-ajr8-denton. County-site receipt(s) in custody 2026-09-06: https://www.dentoncounty.gov/DocumentCenter/View/5402/Standing-Order-Regarding-HIPPA-The-Texas-Medical-Privacy-Act-and-Drug-Testing-Records-PDF (identical edition); https://www.dentoncounty.gov/DocumentCenter/View/9281/Standing-Order-Regarding-HIPAA-the-Texas-Medical-Privacy-Act-and-Drug-Testing-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.