TRO Hearing

streetsmartwallaby · 2025-02-28T22:21:47+00:00

I filed for one against my wife. My lawyer and I presented my documentation to the judge. My then-wife (now ex-wife) represented herself. It … did not go well for her. The judge looked at the evidence I presented - including months of written records, photos and recordings - and said “well this is not abuse but it sure is neglect”. She objected, judge asked on what grounds, she had none. TRO approved.

A few weeks later after she calmed down and got a lawyer they petitioned for a parenting plan; there was some back and forth between her lawyer and mine. We reached an agreement, the judge signed off on it and the TRO was replaced with full time custody for me and an hour of supervised visitation, by an independent third party, three times / week for her.

Vollen595 · 2025-02-28T22:07:49+00:00

TROs are usually 2 weeks, maybe a month. Texas is a rubber stamp state, once the MSA is signed the TRO is usually dropped. Usually.

TRO on you or the STBX? My ex is about to earn Order of Protection #3 for the abuse she handed to our child. She also refuses to pay CS even though it’s court ordered. If the TRO has meat on the bone, it could get extended or reissued but it depends on the reason. My ex keeps threatening to kidnap our child and multiple su!cide threats plus my kid’s therapist wants to appear in court to keep mom away from child due to the threats and substance abuse. For reference, I signed an agreement with my kid’s therapist stating I would not pull the counselor/therapist into court. So much for that, they contacted me.

If you haven’t started counseling or therapy, do so. The court likes to mandate it for both parties. Texas is a rubber stamp state, same forms and processes, they just add your names to the MSA.

No_Pace2396 · 2025-02-28T20:21:59+00:00

Yeah. Need details. Was it denied ex parte, is there any truth, any “proof”? If the accusations are false, it really depends. Could just be a lot of expensive drama, you may end up with a gal, or maybe supervised visits.

Looking back, all the false accusations, I tried to counter with proof and rebuttals. She didn’t have anything to support any of her accusations. But she threw a lot of crazy shit at the wall, to make me look bad, to run up my legal fees, with me responding to all of it. I don’t think the judge ever looked at any of it, couldn’t grant the motion ex parte, couldn’t grant it at a hearing. Instead she threw an expensive GAL in who was almost as bad as a TRO.

By the end of the divorce I would just cut and paste, I will not respond to false, exaggerated, or defamatory claims. Or simply line by line, deny, untrue. By that time we had 300 some filings. Judge might give you 30 mins and will have no idea why they are there, so mine started with lawyers blathering, first about the issue at hand then hers launched into a sob story and smear campaign. With no credible accusation it was just theater to justify billable hours.

Course, I’m making the assumption she filed against you.

TXJohn83 · 2025-02-28T19:05:15+00:00

Really depends on the judge. Ask your lawyer what to expect.

thriller1122 · 2025-02-28T18:49:54+00:00

Depends an awful lot on who is being restrained, from what, and for what.

Title	TRO Hearing
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Date	February 28, 2025 6:37 PM UTC (1 year ago)
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