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General Order 2010-1 — the standing order in every divorce and SAPCR filed in the 336th District Court and Fannin County Court at Law: child protections (no removal from Texas, no school/day-care disruption, no hiding or moving the child, no disparagement of the other party or their family, no discussing litigation with or near the child, and no romantic partner overnight — 8:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. — during possession); conduct rules (no vulgar or threatening communications, no unreasonable-hour or anonymous calls, no opening or diverting the other party's mail, no intercepting, deleting, or recording electronic communications); fifteen property-preservation prohibitions in divorce cases (no destroying/concealing/encumbering property, no misrepresentation on proper request, no new debt except case expenses, no account withdrawals or cash spending except as authorized, no retirement borrowing, no signing the other's name on instruments, no credit-card termination, no taking the other party's vehicle, no altering tax withholding, no terminating utilities or contractual services); records preservation (family/property/financial/business records including e-mail and stored digital data; no falsification); insurance protections; specific authorizations (usual business, reasonable attorney's fees and living expenses, authorized withdrawals); attach-to-petition service with 14-day TRO effect continuing as a temporary injunction if uncontested; protective-order supremacy; mediation encouragement.
Texas > Fannin County > every divorce and SAPCR in the 336th District Court and County Court at Law. "THIS COURT STANDING ORDER… SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE JULY 25th, 2010" — signed Judge Laurine J. Blake (336th) and then-CCL Judge Joe D. Moss; the order runs with the courts (current judges Tillett and Butler). The county also posts this order on its own district-court page (dual receipt).
SCOPE: "this order is a standing order of the 336th District Court & the Fannin County Court at Law that applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in" those courts. CHILDREN (1.1–1.7): no removing the children from Texas, disrupting or withdrawing them from school or day-care, or hiding them or changing their place of abode "without the written agreement of both parties, filed with the Court, or an order of this Court"; no disturbing the children's peace; no disparaging remarks about the other party or their family; no discussing litigation with or in the children's presence; "Allowing anyone with whom the party is romantically involved, to remain over night in the home while in possession of the child" is prohibited — "Overnight is defined from 8:00 p.m. until 7:00 a.m." CONDUCT (2.1–2.4): no vulgar, profane, obscene, or indecent language toward the other party; no threats of unlawful action; no unreasonable-hour, offensive, repetitious, or anonymous calls; no opening or diverting the other party's mail. (3.15): no "[i]ntercepting, deleting, or recording the other party's electronic communications." PROPERTY IN DIVORCE (3.1–3.14): no destroying, removing, concealing, encumbering, transferring, or otherwise harming property; no misrepresenting or refusing to disclose property to the other party or the Court on proper request; no damaging, destroying, or tampering with tangible property including documents of value; no selling, transferring, assigning, mortgaging, or alienating any property of either party "whether personal property or real estate property, and whether separate or community, except as specifically authorized by this order"; no indebtedness except as authorized; no withdrawals from any checking or savings account and no spending of cash in either party's possession except as authorized; no withdrawing or borrowing from any retirement, profit-sharing, pension, death, or employee benefit or savings plan or IRA/Keogh except as authorized; no signing or endorsing the other party's name on negotiable instruments or attempting to negotiate instruments payable to the other party without their personal signature; no terminating or limiting the other party's credit or charge cards; no entering, operating, or exercising control over the motor vehicle in the other party's possession; no discontinuing or altering federal income-tax withholding while the suit is pending; no terminating water, electricity, gas, telephone, cable, or other contractual services (security, pest control, landscaping, yard maintenance) at the other party's residence or withdrawing service deposits. RECORDS (4.1–4.3): no concealing, deleting, or destroying family, property, financial, business, income, or debt records — "'Communications and records' include e-mail or other digital or electronic data, whether stored on a computer hard drive, diskette or other electronic storage device"; no falsifying any writing or record. INSURANCE (5.1–5.3): no withdrawing or borrowing the cash surrender value of life policies except as authorized; no changing beneficiary designations; no canceling or altering casualty, automobile, or health insurance covering the parties' property or persons including the minor children. AUTHORIZATIONS (6.1–6.4): usual business and occupation acts; reasonable attorney's fees and expenses; reasonable and necessary living expenses for food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and medical care; authorized withdrawals only. SERVICE AND EFFECT (7.1–7.2): the petitioner attaches the order to the original petition and every copy (the Clerk ensures attachment otherwise); "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 the filing… If no party contests this order by presenting evidence at a hearing on or before fourteen days… this order shall continue in full force and effect as a temporary injunction until further order of this court." The order terminates on a final order or dismissal. (8) A conflicting protective order prevails. (9) The parties are encouraged to mediate.
Reviewer note: Image-only signed scan read page-by-page through the vision lane (4 pages); prohibitions and mechanism quoted verbatim. Edition precedence: supersedes the June 12, 2006 and March 9, 2009 editions of the same standing order (docs 1393 and 1386, held as superseded-edition records). Dual custody: the county posts "General Order NO. 2010-1 Regarding Family Law Cases" on its own fannin.District.Court page (189,687 B — separate serving of the instrument). Composed benchpath-ajr1-p7.
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.