Title
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Rules and Forms | Protective Orders: Revisions to Continuance Forms (Action Required)
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Summary
Summary
The Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee and Civil and Small Claims Advisory Committee jointly recommend revising 17 protective order forms: the request and order forms for continuances and accompanying information forms, where applicable, for several forms series. Changes to the order forms are recommended to ensure that these protective orders are properly entered into the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS), a California protective order database. Revisions are also needed to the domestic violence and gun violence series to implement recent changes in the law.
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Recommendation
Recommendation
The Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee and Civil and Small Claims Advisory Committee recommend that the Judicial Council, effective January 1, 2020:
1. Revise the Request to Continue Hearing form in each protective order form series (forms CH-115, DV-115, EA-115, GV-115, SV-115, and WV-115);
2. Revise the Order on Request to Continue Hearing form in each series (forms CH-116, DV-116, EA-116, GV-116, SV-116, and WV-116); and
3. Revise the information sheets How to Ask for a New Hearing Date (forms CH-115-INFO, DV-115-INFO, EA-115-INFO, SV-115-INFO, and WV-115-INFO) to reference correct items and to use the same plain language terms as used on forms 115 and 116.