SHORT TITLE AND DEFINITIONS
Known as the Domestic Violence Prevention Act
The act spans §§ 6200–6460 (107 sections).
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case Alanis-Alvarado v. Holder (2009)
Most recently applied in Garcia v. Escobar (November 2017)
Added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 219, Sec. 154
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
“Protective order” means an order that includes any of the following restraining orders, whether issued ex parte, after notice and hearing, or in a judgment:
(a) An order described in Section 6320 enjoining specific acts of abuse.
(b) An order described in Section 6321 excluding a person from a dwelling.
(c) An order described in Section 6322 enjoining other specified behavior.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.