Tips for getting through the process of your local court and clerk.
Most important tip - the clerks are your friends even when they are not, be nice.
Resources
Superior Courts routinely improperly grant restraining orders.
Appeals, Appeal Process, Appealing with no lawyer
Forms to file:
Free but can not be saved: from the government of California Judicial Forms…
Government Sources
CLETS - California Law Enforcement Telecommunication System
California Courts Protective Order Registry
as of 2/18/2012:
One Branch: California Courts Protective Order Registry
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT CCPOR, PLEASE CONTACT:
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Settling with multiple Defendants - Good Faith Required
Attorneys Mackenroth & Laird LLP has a well written tip about the requirement to settle with all defendants in "good faith"
2009 California Rules of Court Rule 3.1382. Good faith settlement and dismissal
Trial Docket CIVMS900013
CIVMS900266
Appealing Civil Harassment Orders
Since civil harassment is decided without a jury, under exceptional conditions, the appeal court may modify or find new facts, may accept new evidence, and even witness testimony. CCCP 909 Thus an exception to the …
Discovery Tips
With the term "discovery" we again arrive at a word that the legal profession of the world think is perfectly fine to steal from the plain english meaning of the word.
Well, not so fast.
Civilharassment.com includes in the rubric of discovery all the means a party can use to learn what has occurred. …