California
Family Code
Division 6. Nullity, Legal Separation,
and Dissolution
Part 1. General Provisions
Chapter 4. Protective and Restraining
Orders
Article 1. Orders in Summons
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(a) In addition to the contents required
by Section
412.20 of the Code of Civil Procedure,
the summons shall contain a temporary restraining
order:
(1)
Restraining both parties
from removing the minor child or children
of the parties, if any, from the state without
[first obtaining]:
—
the prior written consent of the other party
or
—
an order of the court.
(2)
Restraining both parties
from transferring, encumbering, hypothecating,
concealing, or in any way disposing of any
property, real or personal, whether community,
quasi-community, or separate, without [first
obtaining]:
—
the written consent of the other party
or
—
an order of the court,
except
in the usual course of business or
for the necessities of life,
and
requiring
each party to notify the other party of
any proposed extraordinary expenditures
at least five business days before incurring
those expenditures
and
to
account to the court for all extraordinary
expenditures made after service of the summons
on that party.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, nothing in the restraining
order shall preclude a party from using
community property, quasi-community property,
or the party's own separate property to
pay reasonable attorney's fees and costs
in order to retain legal counsel in the
proceeding. A party who uses community property
or quasi-community property to pay his or
her attorney's retainer for fees and costs
under this provision shall account to the
community for the use of the property. A
party who uses other property that is subsequently
determined to be the separate property of
the other party to pay his or her attorney's
retainer for fees and costs under this provision
shall account to the other party for the
use of the property.
(3)
Restraining both parties
from cashing, borrowing against, canceling,
transferring, disposing of, or changing
the beneficiaries of any insurance
or other coverage, including life,
health, automobile, and disability, held
for the benefit of the parties and their
child or children for whom support may be
ordered.
(4)
Restraining both parties
from creating a nonprobate transfer
or modifying a
nonprobate transfer in a manner that affects
the disposition of property subject to the
transfer, without [first obtaining:]
—
the written consent of the other party
or
—
an order of the court.
(b)
Nothing in this section restrains any of
the following:
(1)
Creation, modification, or revocation of
a will.
(2)
Revocation of a nonprobate transfer, including
a revocable trust, pursuant to the instrument,
provided that notice of the change is filed
and served on the other party before the
change takes effect.
(3)
Elimination of a right of survivorship
to property, provided that notice of the
change is filed and served on the other
party before the change
takes effect.
(4)
Creation of an unfunded revocable
or irrevocable trust.
(5)
Execution and filing of a disclaimer
pursuant to Part
8 (commencing with Section
260) of Division 2 of the Probate
Code.
(c) In all actions filed on and after January
1, 1995, the summons shall contain the following
notice: "WARNING:
California law provides that, for purposes
of division of property upon dissolution
of marriage or legal separation, property
acquired by the parties during marriage
in joint form is presumed to be community
property. If either party to this action
should die before the jointly held community
property is divided, the language of how
title is held in the deed (i.e., joint tenancy,
tenants in common, or community property)
will be controlling and NOT
the community property presumption. You
should consult your attorney if you want
the community property presumption to be
written into the recorded title to the property."
(d) For the purposes of this section:
(1)
"Nonprobate transfer" means an
instrument, other than a will, that makes
a transfer of property on death, including
a revocable trust, pay on death account
in a financial institution, Totten trust,
transfer on death registration of personal
property, or other instrument of a type
described in Section
5000 of the Probate Code.
(2)
"Nonprobate transfer" does
not include a provision for the transfer
of property on death in an insurance policy
or other coverage held for the benefit of
the parties and their child or children
for whom support may be ordered, to the
extent that the provision is subject to
paragraph (3) of subdivision
(a).
(e) The restraining order included in the
summons shall include descriptions of the
notices required by paragraphs (2) and (3)
of subdivision (b).
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Nothing in Section 2040
adversely affects the rights, title, and
interest of a purchaser for value, encumbrancer
for value, or lessee for value who is without
actual knowledge of
the restraining order.
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