Form Ch-120 - Response To Request For Civil Harassment Restraining Orders
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9How Can I Respond to a Request for
CH-120-INFO
Civil Harassment Restraining Orders?
What is a civil harassment restraining
Do I have to serve the other person with a
order?
copy of my response?
Yes. Have someone age 18 or older—not you—mail a
It is a court order that prohibits you from doing certain
things and going to certain places.
copy of completed Form CH-120 to the person who
asked for the order (or that person’s lawyer). (This is
What does the order do?
called “service by mail.”)
The court can order you to:
The person who serves the form by mail must fill out
Not contact the person who asked for the order
Form CH-250, Proof of Service of Response by Mail.
Stay away from that person and the person’s home
Have the person who did the mailing sign the original.
and workplace
Take the completed form back to the court clerk or bring
Not have any guns as long as the order is in effect
it with you to the hearing.
Who can ask for a civil harassment
restraining order?
Should I go to the court hearing?
A person who is worried about safety because he or she
Yes. You should go to court on the date listed on Form
has been or is being:
CH-109, Notice of Court Hearing. If you do not go to
Stalked
the hearing, the judge can make orders against you
Harassed
without hearing from you.
Assaulted, including sexually, or
Threatened with violence
I've been served with a request for civil
harassment restraining orders. What do I
do now?
Read the papers served on you very carefully. The
Notice of Court Hearing tells you when to appear in
court. There may also be a Temporary Restraining
Order forbidding you from doing certain things. You
must obey the order until the hearing.
What if I don't obey the order?
The police can arrest you. You can go to jail and pay a
fine.
What if I don't agree with what the order
says?
You still must obey the order until the hearing. If you
disagree with the orders the person is asking for, fill out
Form CH-120, Response to Request for Civil
Harassment Restraining Orders, before your hearing
date and file it with the court. If you need to include
attachments, you can use Form MC-025. You can get
the forms from legal publishers or on the Internet at
You also may be able to find them
at your local courthouse or county law library.
CH-120-INFO,
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Judicial Council of California,
How Can I Respond to a Request for Civil
Revised July 1, 2014, Optional Form
Code of Civil Procedure, § 527.6
Harassment Restraining Orders?
(Civil Harassment Prevention)
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