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If you are sick

and are charged with a felony, you are expected to appear via Zoom, unless you are in the hospital.  You should contact your attorney or the clerk’s office for the Zoom information and not miss your court date.  

Domestic Violence

Assistance available at the Self-Help Center includes instructional packets, limited individual assistance and document checks of your completed forms. Some help may also be available for victims of domestic violence through Casa De Esperanza at (530) 674-5400.

IF YOU ARE IN IMMEDIATE DANGER CALL 911

The Self-Help website for the State of California has additional helpful information.

Restraining Orders

There are several types of restraining orders: domestic violence, civil harassment, workplace violence and elder or dependent adult abuse. This page contains information about domestic violence restraining orders. Find information about the other types of restraining order on the California Courts website.

A domestic violence restraining order is a court order that helps protect people from abuse and/or threats of abuse from someone they know.

Abuse is defined as any of the following:

  • Physically hurting or trying to hurt someone intentionally or recklessly
  • Sexual assault
  • Threats or promises to harm someone
  • Harassment, stalking, disturbing someone's peace, or destroying someone's personal property

A Restraining Order can order the restrained person to:

  • Refrain from contacting or approaching you, your children, your relatives, or others who live with you
  • Stay away from your home, work, or your children’s schools
  • Move out of your house (even if you live together)
  • Forfeit the right to own or possess a gun
  • Follow child custody and visitation orders
  • Pay certain bills, child support, spousal or partner support
  • Stay away from your pets
  • Release or return certain property

Filing Instructions

The forms that you need to file a domestic violence restraining order are available online or are available free at the Family Law Division or Self-Help Center of the Yuba County Superior Court.

The person seeking protection will need to fill out the forms and bring them to the court for filing. Once filed, if the protected person is asking for temporary orders (orders that are in effect between now and the time of the hearing) the forms will be given to the judge for review and the judge will make a decision whether all or some of the orders will be granted. A court date will be set a few weeks out and the restrained party will need to be served with both the request for the restraining order and any temporary orders that have been issued. The protected party must show up for the court date in order to ask for any temporary restraining orders to be continued, or to ask for a more permanent order.

Self-Help Instructions

There are self-help binders available, free of charge, in the Self-Help Center located on the third floor of the Yuba County Superior Court. These binders include instructions that will aid you in filling out the forms to ask the Court for a domestic violence restraining order.

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