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A standing order of the 271st Judicial District Court (with the Wise County Courts at Law) sealing and keeping confidential all Child Protective Service case files, with no non-party access absent a court order.
Applies to CPS/DFPS cases before the 271st Judicial District Court in Jack County. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
The 271st Judicial District Court of Wise and Jack Counties, together with the County Courts at Law Nos. 1 and 2 of Wise County, Standing Order Re: Sealing of Child Protective Service Cases (signed June 26, 2025). It is ordered that all files in which the Department of Family and Protective Services has filed a Petition for Protection of a Child, for Conservatorship, and for Termination in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship, a Petition for Orders in Aid of Investigation, or a Report of Child Abuse or Neglect, or any other Child Protective Service case in the named courts, shall be sealed and kept confidential, and no person or entity not listed as a party shall have access to such records without an order from the Court. Signed by Judge Brock R. Smith (271st), Judge Greg Lowery (County Court at Law No. 1) and Judge Dana D. Manoushagian (County Court at Law No. 2).
The 271st Judicial District Court of Wise and Jack Counties, together with the County Courts at Law Nos. 1 and 2 of Wise County, Standing Order Re: Sealing of Child Protective Service Cases (signed June 26, 2025). It is ordered that all files in which the Department of Family and Protective Services has filed a Petition for Protection of a Child, for Conservatorship, and for Termination in a suit
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the TOPICs custody scan (read in full via the vision lane). 271st District Court order (with the Wise CCLs); composed on the Jack 271st District Court row.
A standing order of the 97th Judicial District Court sealing the files in cases in which Child Protective Services or the Department of Family and Protective Services appears as petitioner, in the counties comprising the 97th Judicial District.
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.