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A joint standing order of the District and County Courts of Travis County governing certain felony and misdemeanor criminal complaints in the period between the completion of magistration and the filing of formal charges.
Applies to certain magistrated criminal complaints before the District and County Courts of Travis County. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Joint Standing Order Concerning Certain Magistrated Complaints, applying to felony and misdemeanor criminal complaints for which the District and County Courts of Travis County have jurisdiction that arise between the completion of magistration at the Travis County Central Booking facility and the filing of a formal charging instrument. The Order governs how such magistrated complaints are handled during that interim period — including the setting of appearances, the appointment of counsel, and the conditions of release — so that defendants' rights are protected and cases proceed in an orderly manner before formal charges are filed.
Joint Standing Order Concerning Certain Magistrated Complaints, applying to felony and misdemeanor criminal complaints for which the District and County Courts of Travis County have jurisdiction that arise between the completion of magistration at the Travis County Central Booking facility and the filing of a formal charging instrument. The Order governs how such magistrated complaints are handled
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the TOPICs custody scan (text layer read). County-wide criminal order; bound to Travis County (criminal).
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.