Family
Aug. 24, 2026
When the clock runs out on a restraining order petition
The Fourth District held that family courts may impose reasonable time limits in domestic violence restraining order proceedings, but they cannot dismiss an unadjudicated petition simply because the parties fail to complete their evidence within the allotted time.
Every family law judge in California is managing a calendar that does not fit in the day. Every family law practitioner has watched a two-hour cross examination eat a half-day setting. The question the Fourth District answered on July 20 is what a court may do about it when the matter running long is a domestic violence restraining order petition.
The answer, in In re Marriage of G.E. and I.D. (July 20, 2026, D085597) __ Cal.App.5th __, is that a ...
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