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The county-wide family standing order of the District Courts and County Courts at Law of Wichita County, entered in every family law case until final hearing, enjoining the parties on communications, property, records, accounts, insurance, credit, electronic data, the children and substance use, and defining 'personal property'.
Attaches to every newly filed family law matter in the Wichita County District Courts and County Courts at Law; both parties are bound until the final hearing.
In all family law cases this Standing Orders in Family Law Cases is entered until a final hearing; prior versions are withdrawn and a copy is attached to every newly filed family matter. In proceedings related to dissolution of marriage the parties are enjoined (items 1-36) from, among other things, vulgar or threatening communication, destroying or transferring property, altering financial records, changing insurance or beneficiary designations, opening or diverting the other party's mail, terminating utilities, tracking or monitoring the other party, and, as to the children, disrupting their schooling, secreting them, disparaging a party in their presence, using controlled substances within twelve hours of possession, and permitting an unrelated intimate adult to remain overnight with the child. The parties are authorized to make reasonable living expenses, attorney's fees and ordinary-course business expenditures. Parallel injunctions apply in suits affecting the parent-child relationship and modifications, and the order defines 'personal property' in categories (a) through (z). Signed March 2024 by Jeff McKnight (30th), Meredith Kennedy (78th), Charles Barnard (89th), Gary Butler (County Court at Law No. 1) and Greg King (County Court at Law No. 2).
In all family law cases this Standing Orders in Family Law Cases is entered until a final hearing; prior versions are withdrawn and a copy is attached to every newly filed family matter. In proceedings related to dissolution of marriage the parties are enjoined (items 1-36) from, among other things, vulgar or threatening communication, destroying or transferring property, altering financial record
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the TOPICs custody (5 pp, text layer, read in full). Court-less division_family (all five courts). County-site prints (own-site 8735 and 8753) are receipts. County-site receipt(s) in custody 2026-09-06: https://wichitacountytx.com/download/standing-orders-in-family-law-cases/?wpdmdl=8735 (identical); https://wichitacountytx.com/download/standing-order-in-family-law-cases/?wpdmdl=8753 (identical).
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.