CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Procedure Before Trial/Hearing
......Restraining Orders (TRO/Prelim. Inj.)
.........Ex Parte Orders
............Children
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Court may make ex parte custody orders.

Duration of ex parte custody orders: 20 days or 90 if concealment.

Custody orders should not be issued or modified ex parte absent showing of immediate harm to child, such as acts of domestic violence or sexual abuse of the child.

TROs precluding removal of minor children from state automatically issue ex parte upon filing petition.

Ex parte order awarding temporary custody of 4-yr. old to F complied with Fam. Code §3064 where evidence child found home alone constituted "immediate harm to the child."