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Standing order of the 77th and 87th District Courts that applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in Limestone County, except cases initiated by the Attorney General or Child Protective Services: no disruption of children, conduct of the parties, preservation of property, specific authorizations, records, insurance, service of the order with the petition and how long it stays in effect, the effect of other court orders, and mediation. Effective January 1, 2025.
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LIMESTONE COUNTY STANDING ORDER REGARDING CHILDREN, PROPERTY AND CONDUCT OF THE PARTIES NO PARTY TO THIS LAWSUIT HAS REQUESTED THIS ORDER. Rather this Order is a standing order of the Seventy-Seventh and Eighty-Seventh Judicial District Courts of LIMESTONE County, Texas, that applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in LIMESTONE County, except cases initiated by the Attorney General of Texas or Child Protective Services. The District Courts of LIMESTONE County have adopted this Order because the parties and their children should be protected and their property preserved while the lawsuit is pending before the Court THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED: 1. NO DISRUPTION OF CHILDREN. Both parties are ORDERED to refrain from doing the following acts concerning any children who are subjects of this case: 1.1 Removing the children from the State of Texas, acting directly or in concert with others, without the written agreement of both parties or an order of this Court. 1.2 Disrupting or withdrawing the children from the school or day-care facility where the children are presently enrolled without the written agreement of both parties or an order of this Court. 1.3 Hiding or secreting the children from the other parent. 1.4 Changing the children’s current place of abode without the written agreement of both parties or an order of the children. 1.5 Disrupting the peace of the children. 1.6 Making disparaging remarks regarding the other party or the other party’s family in the presence or within the hearing of the child or children. 2. CONDUCT OF THE PARTIES DURING THE CASE. Both parties are ORDERED to refrain from doing the following acts: 2.1 Using vulgar, profane, obscene, or indecent language, or a coarse or offensive manner, while communicating with the other party, whether in person, by telephone, or in writing, (Including text messaging or electronic communications). 2.2 Threatening the other party in person, by telephone, or in writing to take unlawful action against any person. 2.3 Placing one or more telephone calls, at an unreasonable hour, in a offensive or repetitious manner without a legitimate purpose of communications, or anonymously. 2.4 Opening, diverting or interfering with the delivery of mail addressed to the other party. 2.5 Causing bodily injury to the other party or, if applicable, to a child of either party. 3. PRESERVATION OF PROPERTY. If this is a divorce case, both parties to the marriage are ORDERED to refrain from doing the following acts: 3.1 Destroying, removing, concealing, encumbering, transferring, or otherwise harming or reducing the value of the property of one or both of the parties. 3.2 Misrepresenting or refusing to disclose to the other party or to the Court, on proper request, the existence, amount, or location of any property of one or both of the parties. 3.3 Damaging or destroying the tangible property of one or both of the parties, including any document that represents or embodies anything of value. 3.4 Tampering with the tangible property of one or both of the parties, including any document that represents or embodies anything of value, and causing pecuniary loss to the other party. 3.5 Selling, transferring, assigning, mortgaging, encumbering, or in any other manner alienating any of the property of either party, whether personal property or real estate property, and whether separate or community, except as specifically authorized by this Order. 3.6 Incurring any indebtedness, other than legal expenses in connection with this suit, except as specifically authorized by this Order. 3.7 Making withdrawals from any checking or savings account in any financial institution for any purpose, except as specifically authorized by this Order. 3.8 Spending any sum of cash in either party’s possession or subject to either party’s control for any purpose, except as specifically authorized by this Order. 3.9 Withdrawing or borrowing in any manner for any purpose from any retirement, profit-sharing, pension, death, or other employee benefit plan or employee savings plan or from any individual retirement account or Keogh account, except as specifically authorized by this Order. 3.10 Signing or endorsing the other party’s name on any negotiable instrument, check, or draft, such as tax refunds, insurance payments, and dividends, or attempting to negotiate any negotiable instrument payable to the other party without the personal signature of the other party. 3.11 Taking any action to terminate or limit credit or charge cards in the name of the other party. 3.12 Taking any action to obtain credit in the name of the other party. 3.13 Entering, operating or exercising control over any motor vehicle in the possession of the other party. 3.14 Discontinuing or reducing the withholding for federal income taxes on wages or salary while this suit is pending. 3.15 Terminating or in any manner affecting the service of water, electricity, gas, telephone, cable television, or other contractual services, such as security, pest control, landscaping, or yard maintenance at the other party’s residence or in any manner attempting to withdraw any deposits for service in connection with such services. 4. SPECIFIC AUTHORIZATIONS IN DIVORCE CASE. If this is a divorce case, both parties to the marriage are specifically authorized to do the following: 4.1 To engage in acts reasonable and necessary to the conduct of that party’s usual business and occupation. 4.2 To make expenditures and incur indebtedness for reasonable attorney’s fees and expenses in connection with this suit. 4.3 To make expenditures and incur indebtedness for reasonable and necessary living expenses for food, clothing, shelter, transportation and medical care. 4.4 To make withdrawals from accounts in financial institutions only for the purposes authorized by this order. 5. PERSONAL AND BUSINESS RECORDS IN DIVORCE CASE. If this is a divorce case, both parties to the marriage are ORDERED to refrain from doing the following acts: 5.1 Concealing, destroying, disposing of, or altering any family records, property records, financial records, business records or any records of income, debts, or other obligations. 5.2 Falsifying any writing or record relating to the property of either party. “Records,” as used in this section, includes e-mail or other digital or electronic data, whether stored on a computer hard drive, diskette or other electronic storage devise. 6. INSURANCE IN DIVORCE CASE. If this is a divorce case, both parties to the marriage are ORDERED to refrain from doing the following acts: 6.1 Withdrawing or borrowing in any manner all or any part of the cash surrender value of life insurance policies on the life of either party of the children of the parties, except as specifically authorized by this order. 6.2 Changing or in any manner altering the beneficiary designation on any life insurance on the life of either party or the parties’ children. 6.3 Canceling, altering or in any manner affecting any casualty, automobile, or health insurance policies insuring the parties’ property or persons, including the parties’ minor children. 7. SERVICE AND APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER. The Petitioner shall attach a copy of this Order to the original petition and to each copy of the petition. At the time the petition is filed, if the Petitioner has failed to attach a copy of this Order to the original petition and any copy of the petition, the Clerk shall ensure that a copy of this Order is attached to the petition and every copy of the petition provided. 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 (14) days after the date of filing of the original petition. If no party contests this Order by presenting evidence at a hearing on or before fourteen days after the date of the filing of the original petition, this Order shall continue in full force and effect as a temporary injunction until further order of the Court. This entire Order will terminate and will no longer be effective once the Court signs a final order. 8. EFFECT OF OTHER COURT ORDERS. If any part of this order is different from any part of a protective order that has already been entered or is later entered, the protective order provisions prevail. Any part of this order not changed by some later order remains in full force and effect until the Court signs a final decree. 9. PARTIES ENCOURAGED TO MEDIATE. The parties are encouraged to settle their disputes amicably without Court intervention. The parties are encouraged to use alternative dispute resolution methods, such a mediation, to resolve the conflicts that may arise in this lawsuit. This LIMESTONE County Standing Order Regarding Children, Property and Conduct of Parties shall become effective on January 1, 2025. [signature] JUDGE ROY DEFRIEND 77TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] JUDGE AMY THOMAS WARD 87TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [File stamp over the title: FILED 10:30 AM, JAN 07 2025, [signature], [printed name overprinted by the title], DISTRICT CLERK, LIMESTONE COUNTY, TEXAS]
LIMESTONE COUNTY STANDING ORDER REGARDING CHILDREN, PROPERTY AND CONDUCT OF THE PARTIES NO PARTY TO THIS LAWSUIT HAS REQUESTED THIS ORDER. Rather this Order is a standing order of the Seventy-Seventh and Eighty-Seventh Judicial District Courts of LIMESTONE County, Texas, that applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in LIMESTONE County, except cas
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-20 (AJR-10 Tenth Region build, own-site layer) from BenchPath custody ajr10 corpus sources/county/limestone/54b69491dfca9075.pdf (278,780 bytes, sha256 54b69491dfca9075dc36d7a33d9963eb8dbcf81c88e899a7c7a73a75aa4a40a3; 4 page(s)) - the document the county posts on its own website, not registered with the Office of Court Administration's TOPICs registry as of 2026-09-20: transcribed by eye from the rendered pages of the scanned PDF (no text layer in the file was relied on), machine OCR draft corrected page by page; signature and file-stamp blocks bracketed. Posted on the District Clerk's page of the county website (file 'standing order 2025.pdf'); filed January 7, 2025 and signed by Judge Roy DeFriend (77th) and Judge Amy Thomas Ward (87th). The same two courts issued the same text for Freestone County (published from TOPICs 2179); the Limestone pages were read one by one and print 'LIMESTONE County' in capitals. The file stamp sits over the title, so part of the stamp's printed name cannot be read. As printed: 'or an order of the children' (1.4); '(Including text messaging' (2.1); 'in a offensive' (2.3); 'either party of the children' (6.1); 'storage devise' (section 5); 'such a mediation' (9); 'pending before the Court THEREFORE' without punctuation.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.