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A standing order of the Travis County Civil and Family District Courts implementing the 2025-2026 statutory and regulatory overhaul of summary-judgment practice (S.B. 293, H.B. 16, Gov't Code sec. 23.303, and the amended Rule 166a), governing the filing, hearing and disposition of all motions for summary judgment.
Applies to all motions for summary judgment in civil and family cases before the Travis County District Courts. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Standing Order for Motions for Summary Judgments in Civil and Family Cases (Travis County District Courts; June 29, 2026). PREAMBLE: a new statutory and regulatory scheme governs all Motions for Summary Judgment ('MSJs') filed in Texas — the Act of June 2, 2025 (89th Leg., R.S., ch. 1130 / S.B. 293), the Act of August 26, 2025 (89th Leg., 2d C.S., ch. 7 / H.B. 16), Texas Government Code section 23.303, and the Supreme Court of Texas's final approval of the amendments to Rule 166a of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure (Misc. Docket No. 96-9012) — which fundamentally alters summary-judgment practice, imposes a legislative mandate requiring judges to rule on MSJs according to the new statutory framework, and adds a reporting requirement for clerks. The undersigned Travis County Civil and Family District Courts adopt this Standing Order for all MSJs filed in their courts, setting the courts covered, the filing, notice, hearing-scheduling and submission requirements, and the deadlines by which the courts must rule under the new framework.
Standing Order for Motions for Summary Judgments in Civil and Family Cases (Travis County District Courts; June 29, 2026). PREAMBLE: a new statutory and regulatory scheme governs all Motions for Summary Judgment ('MSJs') filed in Texas — the Act of June 2, 2025 (89th Leg., R.S., ch. 1130 / S.B. 293), the Act of August 26, 2025 (89th Leg., 2d C.S., ch. 7 / H.B. 16), Texas Government Code section 23
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the TOPICs custody scan (text layer read). Bound to Travis County (civil/family).
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.