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The standing order of the Parker County District Courts and County Courts at Law (Appendix C to the local rules) requiring a party seeking conservatorship or access in a contested SAPCR or modification to complete an approved parenting program before final trial.
Applies to every party seeking conservatorship or access in a contested SAPCR or modification in the Parker County District Courts and County Courts at Law.
In contested original suits affecting the parent-child relationship and contested modifications, every person seeking to be appointed managing or possessory conservator, or seeking access to a child, must successfully complete an approved parenting program before final trial. A list of approved programs is available from the clerk; the order applies to all pro se parties; the filing lawyer gives the petitioner a copy and the clerk attaches the order to each citation and notice of hearing. The program must be completed no later than 30 days before trial with evidence of completion filed at least 21 days before trial. Failure may bar appointment as conservator or specific periods of possession and may draw sanctions, including contempt under Government Code section 21.002. Signed August 7, 2008 by the judges of the 43rd and 415th District Courts and County Courts at Law Nos. 1 and 2.
In contested original suits affecting the parent-child relationship and contested modifications, every person seeking to be appointed managing or possessory conservator, or seeking access to a child, must successfully complete an approved parenting program before final trial. A list of approved programs is available from the clerk; the order applies to all pro se parties; the filing lawyer gives t
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 as the distinct captioned standing order in Appendix C of the 2009 Local Rules print (bundled-instrument doctrine); shares the doc-83 receipt. Court-less division_family family; 2008, no judge join.
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.
General Order of the Civil District Courts sitting in Dallas County (signed April 6, 2020 by the thirteen civil presiding judges), as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 10/07/2023): the 25-page limit on motions and briefs with formatting floors — the instrument the individual courts' policies cite as the amended page-limit rule.