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The Rockwall County District Courts and County Courts at Law's family standing order (children, property, and conduct), applying in every divorce and SAPCR to protect the parties and children and preserve property: the standard children provisions (no removal/hiding, no residence or school change, no disparagement), conduct prohibitions (no threats/harassment, no unlawful-action threats, no offensive contact, no mail diversion, no accessing the other's accounts), and divorce property/records preservation (no destroying/transferring/concealing property, no falsifying or altering financial records or ESI/metadata).
Texas > Rockwall County > the District Courts (382nd, 439th, 503rd) and County Courts at Law (Nos. 1–2) — the standing order in every divorce and SAPCR
SCOPE: "This order is a standing order of the Rockwall County District Courts and County Court(s) at Law that applies as set out below. The District Courts and the County Court(s) at Law of Rockwall County have adopted this order because the parties and their children should be protected and their property preserved while the [case] is pending"; no party requested it, and it applies in every divorce and suit affecting the parent-child relationship. CHILDREN: the parties are ORDERED not to remove or hide a child from another party; not to change the child's residence or disrupt/withdraw the child from school or daycare (absent written agreement or order); and not to make disparaging remarks about another party in the child's presence or hearing or discuss the litigation with or near the child. CONDUCT: the parties are ORDERED not to communicate with another party in a threatening or harassing manner; not to threaten unlawful action; not to make offensive, repetitious, or anonymous contact at unreasonable hours; not to open or divert the other's mail; not to access the other party's email, financial, social-media, or other electronic accounts; and not to intercept the other's communications. DIVORCE — PROPERTY AND RECORDS: divorcing spouses are ORDERED to preserve the marital estate — no destroying, removing, concealing, encumbering, or transferring property; no incurring debts beyond legal expenses and necessities; no falsifying, destroying, or altering financial or business records, including electronically stored information and its native format or metadata; and no changing or cancelling insurance.
Reviewer note: Operative provisions composed verbatim from the registered document (text layer); the divorce property/records section is summarized to its standard operative categories; the own-site copy (rockwallcountytexas.com DocumentCenter/View/4345) is the same instrument; custody sha256 in the registry ledger (doc 520).
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.