Family
Dec. 10, 2013
Restraining Order Center, first in the state, streamlines legal process
Due to the court system's budget crisis, L.A. family law officials needed to come up with a new way to process temporary restraining orders and dissolution of marriage petitions. A year later, what they did seems to be working.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - The Restraining Order Center in room 245 at the downtown Stanley Mosk Courthouse was born out of necessity in 2012. A one-stop shop for domestic violence and civil harassment temporary restraining order applications, its three commissioners also handle dissolution of marriage petitions and divorce settlement agreements.
Those jobs used to be spread among 44 family law judicial officers ...
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