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Rules and Forms | Protective Orders: New Forms for Protecting Minors’ Information (Action Required)
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Summary
Summary
The Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee and the Civil and Small Claims Advisory Committee jointly recommend that the Judicial Council adopt two information sheets to help litigants understand a new law that enables courts to make confidential certain information regarding a minor in civil harassment and domestic violence restraining order proceedings. The new law went into effect on January 1, 2018, under Assembly Bill 953 (Stats. 2017, ch. 384). New Judicial Council forms to implement this law went into effect January 1, 2019.
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Recommendation
Recommendation
The Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee and the Civil and Small Claims Advisory Committee recommend that the Judicial Council, effective January 1, 2020:
1. Adopt form CH-160-INFO, Privacy Protection for a Minor, in the Civil Harassment Prevention series; and
2. Adopt form DV-160-INFO, Privacy Protection for a Minor, in the Domestic Violence Prevention series.