CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Procedure Before Trial/Hearing
......Restraining Orders (TRO/Prelim. Inj.)
.........Pendente Lite Orders/SFLROs (ATROs)
............Children
6 Cards On This Topic:
  • Court may make custody order any time during proceeding.
  • Court may issue restraining orders after hearing.
  • TROs precluding removal of minor children from state automatically issue ex parte upon filing petition.
  • Order restraining W from interfering with H's custody time neither ambiguous nor overbroad—it simply makes explicit what is implicit in every custody order: Party may not interfere with the order.
  • Although trial ct. has broad discretion when fashioning orders relating to children, power is not plenary.
  • Juvenile court exit order requiring parents' mediated agreement re telling C about his paternity, was proper, a collateral order reasonably related to custody and visitation orders.