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Domestic Violence is defined in the California Family Code, it defines what abuse is, who can be a victim, what the court can do to prevent ongoing abuse and how the court can prevent child abuse.

People frequently ask the question of What is Domestic Battery? In California domestic battery is the intentional or reckless attempt to cause bodily injury, it is also sexual assault.

Throughout Los Angeles County, in all the Superior Court Civil buildings there are resources to assist people in the filling out of Domestic Violence Prevention Act restraining orders.

California has defined Domestic Violence, which is sometimes referred to as Domestic Abuse, Spousal Abuse, Partner Abuse, Spousal Battery and Domestic Battery, in the Family Code at Section 6203

In California, Domestic Violence Restraining Orders can be issued upon one person telling the court in writing that another person, someone they are married to, dating or living with, has committed Domestic Violence or Domestic Abuse.

For the Target Parent in a child custody case where parental alienation is going on, the Calendar is their best friend. It is crucial that a Target Parent keep a calendar of all the activities, phone calls – both missed and actual, comments made by the Alienating Parent and anything that an attorney can use to prove the reliability and dedication of the Target Parent.

The “missed opportunity” is the tool of choice for the Alienating Parent. They will find all types of excuses to not show up, to have the child be somewhere else besides where they are supposed to be for a scheduled visit, and they will have a manufactured excuse as to what happened.

Every child custody order that we prepare in our Santa Monica Office has language that refers to the parties not using derogatory language about the other parent with the child.

I’ve been representing parents in child custody cases throughout the six southern California counties of Los Angeles, Ventura, Orange, Riverside, Santa Barbara and San Diego since 1998, and I have learned that in most Parental Alienation cases, sooner or later, usually sooner, the alienated parent is accused of being a child molester.

“Never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity” – I think that is the first thing that alienating parents learn.