Cal. Rules of Court, rule 5.91 · Article 1. General Provisions
Individual restraining order
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
On a party's request for order and as provided in the Family Code, a court may issue any individual restraining order that appears to be reasonable or necessary, including those automatic temporary restraining orders included in the family law summons. Individual orders supersede the standard family law restraining orders in the Family Law and Uniform Parentage Act summonses.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 5.91 amended effective January 1, 2016; adopted effective January 1, 2013.
Title 5, Family and Juvenile Rules-Division 1, Family Rules-Chapter 6, Request for Court Orders-Article 2, Filing and Service; adopted January 1, 2013.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
- Official file
- https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/five/rule5_91
- Text hash
- sha256 e05fad21159930ee9a93e2739d8038eb2b73896c4c8b288e34f74f0533b0e4ba
- Composed by
- compose_crc.py 2026-10-22: the Judicial Council's rule pages read paragraph by paragraph; verify_crc.py's second reading of the Council's per-title PDFs finds every paragraph
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