CALIFORNIA CODES

CALIFORNIA FAMILY CODE

Division 10. PREVENTION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Part 4. PROTECTIVE ORDERS AND OTHER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION ORDERS

Chapter 2. ISSUANCE OF ORDERS

Article 1. Ex Parte Orders

Current through 2010

§ 6320.

(a) The court may issue an ex parte order enjoining a party from molesting, attacking, striking, stalking, threatening, sexually assaulting, battering, harassing, telephoning, including, but not limited to, annoying telephone calls as described in Section 653m of the Penal Code, destroying personal property, contacting, either directly or indirectly, by mail or otherwise, coming within a specified distance of, or disturbing the peace of the other party, and, in the discretion of the court, on a showing of good cause, of other named family or household members.

(b) On a showing of good cause, the court may include in a protective order a grant to the petitioner of the exclusive care, possession, or control of any animal owned, possessed, leased, kept, or held by either the petitioner or the respondent or a minor child residing in the residence or household of either the petitioner or the respondent. The court may order the respondent to stay away from the animal and forbid the respondent from taking, transferring, encumbering, concealing, molesting, attacking, striking, threatening, harming, or otherwise disposing of the animal.

(c) On or before July 1, 2009, the Judicial Council shall modify the criminal and civil court forms consistent with this section.

History. Amended by Stats 2007 ch 205 (SB 353), s 2, eff. 1/1/2008.