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Standing Order Regarding Temporary Injunctions for the 328th, 387th, 501st, and 505th District Courts — Fort Bend County. The operative requirements are quoted verbatim from the governing document (registered/posted 02/13/2026); the document in custody is the controlling text.
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STANDING ORDER REGARDING TEMPORARY INJUNCTIONS FOR THE 328TH, 387TH, 501ST, AND 505TH DISTRICT COURT This Order confirms the District Clerk of Fort Bend County shall attach the appropriate Standing Temporary Mutual Injunctions to every cause, under a separate tab, in which a divorce or suit affecting the parent child relationship is filed. The District Clerk of Fort Bend County shall also provide a copy of the appropriate Standing Temporary Mutual Injunctions with every request for citation as follows: 1. Petitions for Divorce with Children the clerk shall attach the Standing Temporary Mutual Injunctions attached to this Order as Exhibit "A"; 2. Petitions for Divorce with no Children the clerk shall attach the Standing Temporary Mutual Injunctions attached to this Order as Exhibit "B"; and 3. Petitions containing a Suit Affecting the Parent Child Relationship the clerk shall attach the Standing Temporary Mutual Injunctions attached to this Order as Exhibit "C". Signed and entered this [handwritten: 13] day of [handwritten: February], 2026 [signature] J. Christian Becerra, Presiding Judge 434th Judicial District Court Local Administrative Judge [File stamp: FILED FEB 13 2026 AT [handwritten: 4:13 P].M. [signature] CLERK DISTRICT COURT, FORT BEND CO., TX [handwritten initials]] [Stamp: COPY] Exhibit "A" CAUSE NO. ____________ IN THE MATTER OF THE MARRIAGE OF ____________ AND ____________ AND IN THE INTEREST OF ____________ ____________ MINOR CHILD(REN) § IN THE DISTRICT COURT § ______TH JUDICIAL COURT § FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS STANDING TEMPORARY MUTUAL INJUNCTIONS DIVORCE WITH CHILDREN THE PARTIES TO THE ABOVE PENDING LAWSUIT ARE ORDERED TO COMPLY WITH THE FOLLOWING ORDERS OF THE COURT WHILE THE LAWSUIT IS PENDING. THE TEMPORARY INJUNCTION APPLIES TO THE PETITIONER AND RESPONDENT AND IS EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. I. CONDUCT OF THE PARTIES AND PRESERVATION OF PROPERTY. All parties to the marriage are ORDERED to refrain from doing the following acts: 1. Intentionally communicating in person or in any other manner, including by telephone or another electronic voice transmission, video chat, in writing, or electronic messaging, with the other party by use of vulgar, profane, obscene or indecent language or in a coarse or offensive manner, with intent to annoy or alarm the other party; 2. Threatening another party in person or in any other manner, including by telephone or another electronic voice transmission, video chat, in writing, or electronic messaging, to take unlawful action against any person, intending by this action to annoy or alarm the other party; 3. Placing a telephone call, anonymously, at an unreasonable hour, in an offensive and repetitious manner, or without a legitimate purpose of communication with the intent to annoy or alarm the other party; 4. Intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causing bodily injury to the other party or to a child of either party; 5. Threatening the other party or a child of either party with imminent bodily injury; 6. Intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly destroying, removing, concealing, encumbering, transferring or otherwise harming or reducing the value of the property of the parties or either party with intent to obstruct the authority of the court to order a division of the estate of the parties in a manner that the court deems just and right, having due regard for the rights of each party and any children of the marriage; 7. Intentionally falsifying a writing or record, including an electronic record, relating to the property of either party; 8. Intentionally misrepresenting or refusing to disclose to the other party or to the court, on proper request, the existence, amount or location of any tangible or intellectual property of the parties or either party, including electronically stored or recorded information; 9. Intentionally or knowingly damaging or destroying the tangible or intellectual property of the parties or either party, including electronically stored or recorded information; 10. Intentionally or knowingly tampering with the tangible or intellectual property of the parties or either party, including electronically stored or recorded information, and causing pecuniary loss or substantial inconvenience to the other party; 11. Except as authorized by the court: A. Selling, transferring, assigning, mortgaging, encumbering, or in any other manner alienating any of the property of the parties or either party, regardless of whether the property is: (i) personal property, real property, or intellectual property, or (ii) separate or community property; B. Incurring any debt, other than legal expenses in connection with the suit for dissolution of marriage; C. Withdrawing money from any checking or savings account in a financial institution for any purpose; D. Spending any money in either party's possession or subject to either party's control for any purpose; E. Withdrawing or borrowing money in any manner for any purpose from a retirement, profit-sharing, pension, death, or other employee benefit plan, employee savings plan, individual retirement account, or Keogh account of either part; or F. Withdrawing or borrowing in any manner all or any part of the cash surrender value of a life insurance policy on the life of either party or a child of the parties; 12. Entering any safe-deposit box in the name of or subject to the control of the parties or either party, whether individually or jointly with others; 13. Changing or in any manner altering the beneficiary designation on any life insurance policy on the life of either party or a child of the parties; 14. Canceling, altering, failing to renew or pay premiums on, or in any manner affecting the level of coverage that existed at the time the suit was filed of any life, casualty, automobile, or health insurance policy insuring the parties' property or persons, including a child of the parties; 15. Opening or diverting mail or email or any other electronic communication addressed to the other party; 16. Signing or endorsing the other party's name on any negotiable instrument, check or draft, including a tax refund, insurance payment, and dividend, or attempting to negotiate any negotiable instrument payable to the other party without the personal signature of the other party; 17. Taking any action to terminate or limit credit or charge credit cards in the name of the other party; 18. Discontinuing or reducing the withholding for federal income taxes from either party's wages or salary; 19. Destroying, disposing of, or altering any financial records of the parties, including a canceled check, deposit clip, and other records from a financial institution, a record of credit purchases or cash advances, a tax return, and a financial statement; 20. Destroying, disposing of, or altering any email, text message, video message, or chat message or other electronic data or electronically stored information relevant to the subject matter of the suit for dissolution of marriage, regardless of whether the information is stored on a hard drive, in a removable storage device, in cloud storage, or in another electronic storage medium; 21. Modifying, changing, or altering the native format or metadata of any electronic data or electronically stored information relevant to the subject matter of the suit for dissolution of marriage, regardless of whether the information is stored on a hard drive, in a removable storage device, in cloud storage, or in another electronic storage medium; 22. Deleting any data or content from any social network profile used or created by either party or a child of the parties; 23. Using any password or personal identification number to gain access to the other party's email account, bank account social media account, or any other electronic account; 24. Terminating or in any manner affecting the service of water, electricity, gas, telephone, cable television, or any other contractual service, including security, pest control, landscaping or yard maintenance at the residence of either party, or in any manner attempting to withdraw any deposit paid in connection with any of those services; 25. Excluding the other party from the use and enjoyment of a specifically identified residence of the other party; or 26. Entering, operating, or exercising control over a motor vehicle in the possession of the other party; or 27. Tracking or monitoring personal property or a motor vehicle in the possession of a party, without that party's effective consent, including by: A. Using a tracking application on a personal electronic device in the possession of that party or using a tracking device; or B. Physically following that party or causing another to physically follow that party. II. SPECIFIC AUTHORIZATIONS IN DIVORCE CASE. All parties to the marriage are specifically authorized to do the following: 1. To engage in acts reasonable and necessary to conduct each party's usual business and occupation. 2. To make expenditures and incur indebtedness for reasonable and necessary attorney's fees and expenses in connection with this suit. 3. To make expenditures and incur indebtedness for reasonable and necessary living expenses. III. NO DISRUPTION OF A CHILD WHO IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS CASE. All parties are ORDERED to refrain from doing the following acts concerning any child who is the subject of a case without a written agreement of all parties or an order of the Court: 1. Removing a child from the State of Texas for the purpose of changing the residence of the child or evading the jurisdiction of the Court, acting directly or in concert with others. 2. Disrupting or withdrawing a child from the school or day-care facility where a child is presently enrolled. 3. Hiding or secreting a child from the other parent or changing the child's current place of abode. 4. Disturbing the peace of the child or the other party. 5. Making disparaging remarks regarding the other party or the other party's family in the presence or within the hearing of a child. SIGNED this [handwritten: 13] day of [handwritten: FEBRUARY], 2026. [signature] Monica Rawlins, Presiding Judge 328th Judicial District Court [signature] Oscar M. Telfair III, Presiding Judge 387th Judicial District Court [signature] Richard T. Bell, Presiding Judge 501st Judicial District Court [signature] Kali Morgan, Presiding Judge 505th Judicial District Court Exhibit "B" CAUSE NO. ____________ IN THE MATTER OF THE MARRIAGE OF ____________ AND ____________ § IN THE DISTRICT COURT § ______TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT § FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS STANDING TEMPORARY MUTUAL INJUNCTIONS DIVORCE NO CHILDREN THE PARTIES TO THE ABOVE PENDING LAWSUIT ARE ORDERED TO COMPLY WITH THE FOLLOWING ORDERS OF THE COURT WHILE THE LAWSUIT IS PENDING. THE TEMPORARY INJUNCTION APPLIES TO THE PETITIONER AND RESPONDENT AND IS EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. I. CONDUCT OF THE PARTIES AND PRESERVATION OF PROPERTY. All parties to the marriage are ORDERED to refrain from doing the following acts: 1. Intentionally communicating in person or in any other manner, including by telephone or another electronic voice transmission, video chat, in writing, or electronic messaging, with the other party by use of vulgar, profane, obscene or indecent language or in a coarse or offensive manner, with intent to annoy or alarm the other party; 2. Threatening another party in person or in any other manner, including by telephone or another electronic voice transmission, video chat, in writing, or electronic messaging, to take unlawful action against any person, intending by this action to annoy or alarm the other party; 3. Placing a telephone call, anonymously, at an unreasonable hour, in an offensive and repetitious manner, or without a legitimate purpose of communication with the intent to annoy or alarm the other party; 4. Intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causing bodily injury to the other party or to a child of either party; 5. Threatening the other party or a child of either party with imminent bodily injury; 6. Intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly destroying, removing, concealing, encumbering, transferring or otherwise harming or reducing the value of the property of the parties or either party with intent to obstruct the authority of the court to order a division of the estate of the parties in a manner that the court deems just and right, having due regard for the rights of each party and any children of the marriage; 7. Intentionally falsifying a writing or record, including an electronic record, relating to the property of either party; 8. Intentionally misrepresenting or refusing to disclose to the other party or to the court, on proper request, the existence, amount or location of any tangible or intellectual property of the parties or either party, including electronically stored or recorded information; 9. Intentionally or knowingly damaging or destroying the tangible or intellectual property of the parties or either party, including electronically stored or recorded information; 10. Intentionally or knowingly tampering with the tangible or intellectual property of the parties or either party, including electronically stored or recorded information, and causing pecuniary loss or substantial inconvenience to the other party; 11. Except as authorized by the court: A. Selling, transferring, assigning, mortgaging, encumbering, or in any other manner alienating any of the property of the parties or either party, regardless of whether the property is: (i) personal property, real property, or intellectual property, or (ii) separate or community property; B. Incurring any debt, other than legal expenses in connection with the suit for dissolution of marriage; C. Withdrawing money from any checking or savings account in a financial institution for any purpose; D. Spending any money in either party's possession or subject to either party's control for any purpose; E. Withdrawing or borrowing money in any manner for any purpose from a retirement, profit-sharing, pension, death, or other employee benefit plan, employee savings plan, individual retirement account, or Keogh account of either part; or F. Withdrawing or borrowing in any manner all or any part of the cash surrender value of a life insurance policy on the life of either party or a child of the parties; 12. Entering any safe-deposit box in the name of or subject to the control of the parties or either party, whether individually or jointly with others; 13. Changing or in any manner altering the beneficiary designation on any life insurance policy on the life of either party or a child of the parties; 14. Canceling, altering, failing to renew or pay premiums on, or in any manner affecting the level of coverage that existed at the time the suit was filed of any life, casualty, automobile, or health insurance policy insuring the parties' property or persons, including a child of the parties; 15. Opening or diverting mail or email or any other electronic communication addressed to the other party; 16. Signing or endorsing the other party's name on any negotiable instrument, check or draft, including a tax refund, insurance payment, and dividend, or attempting to negotiate any negotiable instrument payable to the other party without the personal signature of the other party; 17. Taking any action to terminate or limit credit or charge credit cards in the name of the other party; 18. Discontinuing or reducing the withholding for federal income taxes from either party's wages or salary; 19. Destroying, disposing of, or altering any financial records of the parties, including a canceled check, deposit clip, and other records from a financial institution, a record of credit purchases or cash advances, a tax return, and a financial statement; 20. Destroying, disposing of, or altering any email, text message, video message, or chat message or other electronic data or electronically stored information relevant to the subject matter of the suit for dissolution of marriage, regardless of whether the information is stored on a hard drive, in a removable storage device, in cloud storage, or in another electronic storage medium; 21. Modifying, changing, or altering the native format or metadata of any electronic data or electronically stored information relevant to the subject matter of the suit for dissolution of marriage, regardless of whether the information is stored on a hard drive, in a removable storage device, in cloud storage, or in another electronic storage medium; 22. Deleting any data or content from any social network profile used or created by either party or a child of the parties; 23. Using any password or personal identification number to gain access to the other party's email account, bank account social media account, or any other electronic account; 24. Terminating or in any manner affecting the service of water, electricity, gas, telephone, cable television, or any other contractual service, including security, pest control, landscaping or yard maintenance at the residence of either party, or in any manner attempting to withdraw any deposit paid in connection with any of those services; 25. Excluding the other party from the use and enjoyment of a specifically identified residence of the other party; or 26. Entering, operating, or exercising control over a motor vehicle in the possession of the other party. 27. Tracking or monitoring personal property or a motor vehicle in the possession of a party, without that party's effective consent, including by: A. Using a tracking application on a personal electronic device in the possession of that party or using a tracking device; or B. Physically following that party or causing another to physically follow that party. II. SPECIFIC AUTHORIZATIONS IN DIVORCE CASE. All parties to the marriage are specifically authorized to do the following: 1. To engage in acts reasonable and necessary to conduct each party's usual business and occupation. 2. To make expenditures and incur indebtedness for reasonable and necessary attorney's fees and expenses in connection with this suit. 3. To make expenditures and incur indebtedness for reasonable and necessary living expenses. SIGNED this [handwritten: 13] day of [handwritten: FEBRUARY], 2026. [signature] Monica Rawlins, Presiding Judge 328th Judicial District Court [signature] Oscar M. Telfair III, Presiding Judge 387th Judicial District Court [signature] Richard T. Bell, Presiding Judge 501st Judicial District Court [signature] Kali Morgan, Presiding Judge 505th Judicial District Court Exhibit "C" CAUSE NO. ____________ IN THE INTEREST OF ____________ ____________ ____________ MINOR CHILD(REN) § IN THE DISTRICT COURT § ______TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT § FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS SUIT AFFECTING PARENT CHILD RELATIONSHIP STANDING TEMPORARY MUTUAL INJUNCTIONS THE PARTIES TO THE ABOVE PENDING LAWSUIT ARE ORDERED TO COMPLY WITH THE FOLLOWING ORDERS OF THE COURT WHILE THE LAWSUIT IS PENDING. THE TEMPORARY INJUNCTION APPLIES TO THE PETITIONER ANO RESPONDENT AND IS EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. I. NO DISTRUPTION OF A CHILD WHO IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS CASE. All parties are ORDERED to refrain from doing the following acts concerning any child who is the subject of a case without a written agreement of all parties or an order of the Court: 1. Removing a child from the State of Texas for the purpose of changing the residence of the child or evading the jurisdiction of the Court, acting directly or in concert with others. 2. Disrupting or withdrawing a child from the school or day-care facility where a child is presently enrolled. 3. Hiding or secreting a child from the other parent or changing the child's current place of abode. 4. Disturbing the peace of the child or the other party. 5. Making disparaging remarks regarding the other party or the other party's family in the presence or within the hearing of a child. II. CONDUCT OF THE PARTIES DURING THE CASE. All parties are ORDERED to refrain from doing the following acts: 1. Intentionally communicating in person or in any other manner, including by telephone or another electronic voice transmission, video chat, in writing, or electronic messaging, with the other party by use of vulgar, profane, obscene or indecent language or in a coarse or offensive manner, with intent to annoy or alarm the other party; 2. Threatening another party in person or in any other manner, including by telephone or another electronic voice transmission, video chat, in writing, or electronic messaging, to take unlawful action against any person, intending by this action to annoy or alarm the other party; 3. Placing a telephone call, anonymously, at an unreasonable hour, in an offensive and repetitious manner, or without a legitimate purpose of communication with the intent to annoy or alarm the other party; 4. Intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causing bodily injury to the other party or to a child of either party; 5. Threatening the other party or a child of either party with imminent bodily injury. 6. Tracking or monitoring personal property or a motor vehicle in the possession of a party, without that party's effective consent, including by: A. Using a tracking application on a personal electronic device in the possession of that party or using a tracking device; or B. Physically following that party or causing another to physically follow that party. SIGNED this [handwritten: 13] day of [handwritten: FEBRUARY], 2026. [signature] Monica Rawlins, Presiding Judge 328th Judicial District Court [signature] Oscar M. Telfair III, Presiding Judge 387th Judicial District Court [signature] Richard T. Bell, Presiding Judge 501st Judicial District Court [signature] Kali Morgan, Presiding Judge 505th Judicial District Court
STANDING ORDER REGARDING TEMPORARY INJUNCTIONS FOR THE 328TH, 387TH, 501ST, AND 505TH DISTRICT COURT This Order confirms the District Clerk of Fort Bend County shall attach the appropriate Standing Temporary Mutual Injunctions to every cause, under a separate tab, in which a divorce or suit affecting the parent child relationship is filed. The District Clerk of Fort Bend County shall also provide
Reviewer note: Operative provisions transcribed verbatim by vision-read of the registered scanned document (rasterized at 170 dpi and read page-by-page this session); the registered document (sha256 bb5cfd6ca592…) is the controlling text. Supersedes the January 7, 2025 three-court set (TOPICs docs 2186-2189) and the 2021-posted predecessors. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 bb5cfd6ca592..., 17 page(s), image-only scan; the OCR layer used as a typing base and corrected word by word from the page) read against the rendered file; verbatim, source typos kept, stamps/signatures bracketed; the earlier abstract replaced by the full instrument; confidence high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21]
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