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1. When can you file a Civil Harassment Restraining Order?
2. How to get a Civil Harassment Restraining Order
3. How to fill out and file the Restraining Order form
4. Fees and Waivers

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1. When can you file a Civil Harassment Restraining Order?

If you and the other party do not have a close relationship (married, divorced, separated, dating or used to date, live together or used to live together), or are not related (parent, child, brother, sister, grandmother, grandfather, in-laws), you can ask for a Civil Harassment Restraining Order.
 

2. How to get a Civil Harassment Restraining Order form

   To get a Civil Harassment Restraining Order, you must fill out the correct forms. You can get them from:

   • The Restraining Order Help Center (free)
   • Superior Court CourtMobile (free)
   • Online at the Judicial Council Forms page
   • Bookstores and print shops that have legal forms
      
   Forms to complete:
   • Civil Case Cover Sheet (Form CM-010)
   • Declaration Re: Notice upon Ex Parte Application (Local Form ?)
   • Order to Show Cause - Temporary Restraining Order (Form CH-120)
   • Citation for Injunction Prohibiting Harassment (Form CH-100)
   • Law Enforcement Supplemental Harassment Form (Local Form ?)
   • Fee Waiver - if this applies -(Form 982(a)(17) and Form 982(a)(18))

   Fill out your forms neatly in blue or black ink. Samples are available at the Restraining Order Help Center, The Family Court Clerk’s Office and in the CourtMobile.
    

3. How to fill out and file the Restraining Order form

   Fill out your forms and give them to the Document Examiner at Family Court.
   
   A judge will look at your forms within 24 hours and let you know if you will get a temporary restraining order or not.. A court hearing will be set in about 3 weeks so the judge can decide if the orders will continue for up to 5 years. Make sure to come to this court hearing.
    

4. Fees and Waivers
   
   The cost to file a Civil Harassment Restraining Order is on the Court's fee page - look under Requests for Protective Orders and find the fee listed for "Petition to prevent civil harassment (other) and response."
   
   As indicated on the fee page, there is no filing fee if the person you are trying to keep away has been physically violent or threatened to be violent to you.
   
   For fee waiver forms, see under "Forms to Complete" above.