How can a Texas temporary restraining order be extended?

Obtain the original signed order and its exact court-fixed period and expiration.

Establish whether the court actually granted an extension within that time.

Preserve recorded good-cause reasons, actual consent for any longer period and the opposition status of later extensions.

1. Obtain the original signed order and its exact court-fixed period and expiration.
2. A like period refers to the actual court-fixed period, not automatically fourteen days. The original term can be shorter than the maximum. Consent and further unopposed extensions use their stated separate conditions. No new period is established merely by adding fourteen to an assumed expiry.
3. Read the actual order and confirm every stated condition.
4. Complete the act required by the rule, not merely a date calculation.

Read the signed order’s exact expiration terms, including any date and hour. Rule 680 does not authorize keeping an order alive by silently applying a generic filing rollover to its expiration. This guide applies no closed-day extension to the order and makes no calculation.

The isolated fourteen-day extension preset cannot establish the original like period, timely court action, recorded reasons, consent or later extensions. This variable procedure has no universal fixed new period, so it publishes no calculated date or purchase.

Within the original time

Rule 680 requires the qualifying good-cause extension within the court-fixed original time. A request alone does not establish that the order was extended.

Like period rather than fixed fourteen

The extension language uses a like period. Because the original term may be shorter than fourteen days, the isolated fourteen-day extension preset does not determine the actual new expiration.

Longer consent-based period

The party against whom the order is directed may consent to a longer period. Establish that actual consent and the extension rather than assuming silence creates it.

Record and further extensions

Extension reasons must be entered of record. No more than one extension may be granted unless subsequent extensions are unopposed. Actual later extension orders still matter.

• This guide does not establish the actual pleadings, service, calendar, legal entitlement or terms of a signed order.
• The current consolidation date does not decide historical applicability of an individual amendment.

• Obtain the original signed order and its exact court-fixed period and expiration.
• Establish whether the court actually granted an extension within that time.
• Preserve recorded good-cause reasons, actual consent for any longer period and the opposition status of later extensions.
• Rule 680 requires the qualifying good-cause extension within the court-fixed original time. A request alone does not establish that the order was extended.
• The extension language uses a like period. Because the original term may be shorter than fourteen days, the isolated fourteen-day extension preset does not determine the actual new expiration.
• The party against whom the order is directed may consent to a longer period. Establish that actual consent and the extension rather than assuming silence creates it.
• Extension reasons must be entered of record. No more than one extension may be granted unless subsequent extensions are unopposed. Actual later extension orders still matter.
• Obtain and preserve the actual timely extension and reasons entered of record. Verify its new expiration terms and any relevant consent or lack of opposition. A filed request, pending motion or later hearing does not itself establish extension. Check the exact signed order before treating restraint as continuing.