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The county-wide family standing order of the 410th and 418th District Courts and County Court at Law No. 3, self-executing in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in Montgomery County (the Office of the Attorney General is excepted from 'party'). It is BINDING on the parties, their officers/agents/servants/employees/attorneys, and anyone acting in concert with actual notice, ENFORCEABLE BY CONTEMPT (fine and/or imprisonment). It orders: NO DISRUPTION OF A CHILD (no removing the child from Texas to change residence or evade jurisdiction, and no disrupting/withdrawing the child from school or day-care, absent written agreement or court order or a prior order granting that right); conduct prohibitions protecting the parties and children (no threats, harassment, profane/obscene communication, no bodily injury or threats of imminent injury to a party or child, no opening/diverting the other party's mail or electronic communications); PRESERVATION OF PROPERTY in divorce cases (no destroying/concealing/encumbering/transferring property to obstruct a just division, no misrepresenting or refusing to disclose property, no damaging/tampering causing loss, no selling/mortgaging/alienating property except as authorized, no incurring debt except legal expenses, no withdrawing from accounts except as authorized) with a specific-authorization carve-out for usual business, legal fees, and living/business expenses using community funds while keeping records; ELECTRONIC DATA preservation (no destroying/altering emails, texts, chats, or ESI relevant to the suit; no altering native format/metadata; no deleting social-network content; no using the other party's passwords/PINs to access their accounts); INSURANCE preservation in divorce (no withdrawing life-policy cash value, changing beneficiaries, or canceling/altering life/casualty/auto/health coverage); and specific authorizations (usual business/occupation acts and reasonable attorney's fees and litigation expenses).
Texas > Montgomery County > 410th and 418th District Courts and County Court at Law No. 3 — self-executing in every divorce and SAPCR filed in the county; binding by contempt on the parties and those acting in concert with notice. The OAG is excepted from 'party.'
"THIS MONTGOMERY COUNTY SECOND AMENDED STANDING ORDER... IS BINDING ON (1) THE PARTIES, (2) THE PARTIES' OFFICERS, AGENTS, SERVANTS, EMPLOYEES, AND ATTORNEYS, AND (3) ANY OTHER PERSON WHO ACTS IN CONCERT WITH THE PARTIES OR THEIR AGENTS AND WHO RECEIVES ACTUAL NOTICE OF THESE ORDERS, AND IS ENFORCEABLE BY CONTEMPT OF COURT, INCLUDING FINE AND/OR IMPRISONMENT." "this order is a standing order of the 410th and 418th District Courts and the County Court at Law Number Three (3) of Montgomery County, Texas, that applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in Montgomery County... The term 'party' as used in this order does not include the Office of the Attorney General of Texas." 1. NO DISRUPTION OF A CHILD — no "Removing the child from the State of Texas... for the purpose of changing the residence of the child or evading the jurisdiction of the court... without the written agreement of both parties or an order of the court" (with a prior-order exception); no "Disrupting or withdrawing the child from the school or day-care facility." 4. PRESERVATION OF PROPERTY AND USE OF FUNDS DURING DIVORCE CASE — refrain from "4.1 Intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly destroying, removing, concealing, encumbering, transferring, or otherwise harming or reducing the value of the property... with intent to obstruct the authority of the court to order a division"; "4.5 Except as specifically authorized by the court, selling, transferring, assigning, mortgaging, encumbering, or in any other manner alienating any of the property"; "4.6 Except as specifically authorized by the court, incurring any debt, other than legal expenses in connection with the suit"; "4.7 Except as specifically authorized by this order, withdrawing money from any checking or savings account." 5 (electronic data): no "5.3 Destroying, disposing of, or altering any e-mail, text message, video message, or chat message or other electronic data... relevant to the subject matter of the suit"; "5.4 Modifying, changing, or altering the native format or metadata"; "5.5 Deleting any data or content from any social network profile"; "5.6 Using any password or personal identification number to gain access to the other party's e-mail account, bank account, social media account, or any other electronic account." 6. INSURANCE IN DIVORCE CASE — no withdrawing/borrowing life-policy cash value (6.1), "Changing or in any manner altering the beneficiary designation on any life insurance policy" (6.2), or "Canceling, altering, failing to renew or pay premiums on, or in any manner affecting the level of coverage" of life/casualty/auto/health insurance (6.3). 7. SPECIFIC AUTHORIZATIONS — parties may "engage in acts reasonable and necessary to conduct each party's usual business and occupation" and "make expenditures and incur indebtedness for reasonable attorney's fees and expenses in connection with this suit." Received and filed December 28, 2022.
Reviewer note: Image-only registration (seven pages) read through the vision lane across the binding clause and Rules 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7; operative provisions quoted verbatim (the standard Texas family standing-order form as adopted by Montgomery's family courts). Received and filed Dec. 28, 2022. Its scan/text twin doc 494 is the same instrument (first-amended vs second-amended distinction noted; 494 folded at gen-sql if byte-confirmed). Composed benchpath-ajr2-p2.
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.