The Second Amended Standing Order automatically takes effect the moment a divorce or SAPCR is filed in any Montgomery County family court — including County Court at Law No. 3. It applies to both parties immediately upon filing, without any additional court action, and remains in effect until the case is resolved or the court modifies it.

It is enforceable by contempt of court, which can include fines and imprisonment. Both parties are bound by it regardless of whether they have been formally served with the petition.

Both parties are prohibited from:

• Removing the child from Texas without written agreement of both parties or a court order
• Hiding or secreting the child from the other party
• Making any false statements to a government agency about the other party or the child
• Making disparaging remarks about the other party in the presence or within earshot of the child
• Causing the child to make disparaging remarks about the other party
• Interfering with the child's current school placement or withdrawing the child from school without agreement or court order
• Disturbing the peace of the child

Neither party may harm, remove from the county, hide, or dispose of any household pet owned by either party or the children during the pendency of the case.

Both parties are prohibited from:

• Threatening the other party in person, by phone, in writing, or through a third party
• Contacting the other party in a harassing or offensive manner
• Using vulgar, profane, obscene, or indecent language to or about the other party in the presence of the child
• Intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causing bodily injury to the other party or to any child
• Threatening to cause bodily injury to the other party or any child
• Destroying, removing, concealing, encumbering, transferring, or otherwise harming or reducing the value of any property of either party

Both parties are prohibited from:

• Selling, transferring, assigning, mortgaging, encumbering, or otherwise alienating any property — real or personal — except in the ordinary course of business
• Withdrawing retirement funds except as authorized by plan documents
• Incurring debt other than in the ordinary course of business or for reasonable and necessary living expenses
• Making withdrawals from any bank or financial account in excess of ordinary living expenses
• Spending, wasting, or dissipating any property — including cash — except for reasonable and necessary living expenses
• Liquidating, pledging, loaning, or otherwise alienating any stocks, bonds, mutual funds, or other securities
• Destroying, throwing away, or disposing of any financial records, documents, or communications
• Cutting off or allowing to lapse any utilities serving the marital residence
• Changing any payroll or income-tax withholding forms
• Opening any new financial institution account without notifying the other party within 72 hours
• Entering into any contract affecting the marital estate without the written agreement of the other party

Both parties are required to:

• Maintain all existing insurance coverage in full force during the pendency of the case
• Continue paying all existing obligations as they come due

Each party is authorized to:

• Make purchases reasonably necessary for the support of themselves and any child in their care
• Pay reasonable and necessary attorney's fees and expenses related to this lawsuit
• Make purchases, sales, or other actions in the ordinary course of business
• Use credit cards for ordinary and reasonable living expenses

Both parties are required to:

• Maintain all personal and business financial records in their current form
• Make available to the other party on request all financial records — including bank statements, credit card statements, retirement account statements, and tax returns — going back two years
• Make available all documents related to the ownership or transfer of any real property

Neither party may destroy, conceal, or dispose of any personal or business records during the pendency of the case.

• Neither party may cancel, cause to be canceled, allow to lapse, or in any manner change any existing insurance coverage — including health, life, automobile, homeowner's, or renter's insurance — that names the other party or any child as a beneficiary or insured
• Neither party may change beneficiary designations on any insurance policy or retirement account
• Both parties are required to maintain all existing insurance coverage in full force throughout the pendency of the case