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The county-wide family standing order entered in every divorce and suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in Wise County, jointly adopted by the 271st District Court and County Courts at Law Nos. 1 and 2. Nine numbered sections restrain both parties on the conduct of the children, their communication with each other, the preservation of property and records, insurance, and the specific expenditures each party remains authorized to make; it operates as a temporary restraining order and then a temporary injunction, and orders the parties to mediate.
Attaches to the original petition in every Wise County divorce and SAPCR; both parties are bound on filing. This Sept. 1, 2022 edition supersedes the earlier Jan. 11, 2021 edition printed inside the county Rules of Practice (Exhibit B).
This Standing Order applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in Wise County and binds both parties. Its nine sections address: (1) no disruption of the children (no disparagement in the children's presence, no disturbing their peace, no withdrawing them from their school or day-care, no hiding or secreting them, no removal from the county except in the ordinary course); (2) conduct of the parties toward each other (no threats, harassment, or vulgar, profane or indecent communication); (3) preservation of property and no spending outside the ordinary course of business or the necessities of life; (4) no destroying, disposing of, or altering financial records or property; (5) no changing, canceling, or failing to renew insurance; (6) the specific expenditures the parties remain authorized to make (reasonable living expenses, attorney's fees, and acts in the ordinary course of business); (7) service and application — the petitioner attaches the order to the original petition; it operates as a temporary restraining order for 14 days from filing and thereafter as a temporary injunction; (8) the effect of any conflicting protective order; and (9) the parties are ORDERED to mediate. Signed by Judge Brock R. Smith (271st District Court), Judge Greg Lowery (County Court at Law No. 1) and Judge Dana Manoushagian (County Court at Law No. 2).
This Standing Order applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in Wise County and binds both parties. Its nine sections address: (1) no disruption of the children (no disparagement in the children's presence, no disturbing their peace, no withdrawing them from their school or day-care, no hiding or secreting them, no removal from the county except in
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the TOPICs custody scan (image-only, read in full via the vision lane). County-level joint family standing order; court-less division_family. Supersedes the Jan. 11, 2021 Exhibit B edition inside the Rules of Practice (1437).
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.