eSignature Legitimacy for Addressing Harassment

How to eSign a document: e-signature legitimacy for Addressing Harassement

my name is marie bowie and i'm an attorney here at the nieves law firm today i'm going to talk to you about civil harassment [Music] california code of civil procedure section 527.6 states that harassment is three things it's either or can be in conjunction with one unlawful violence and or two a credible threat of violence and or three a willful and intentional course of conduct that seriously annoys alarms or harasses a person and serves no legitimate purpose so those are the three ways that harassment can exist it can exist in one or all and you can couple them together now the stout statute states that if civil harassment is present then courts are allowed to issue a restraining order if the person that's bringing the harassment action can prove with clear and convincing evidence that that person is committing harassment the burden of proof in civil harassment restraining order cases are clear and convincing please note that this is lower than the standard of proof in criminal cases which is beyond a reasonable doubt it's on the petitioner the person that files the petition or the person that files for a restraining order to prove that harassment has occurred civil harassment initially is not per se a criminal matter but it does have criminal effects so if you are the person that is subjected to a civil harassment restraining order you could be subjected to criminal consequences if you violate that order further you can lose substantive rights and that you will no longer be allowed to possess a weapon if you are the subject of a civil harassment restraining order so therefore there are criminal effects that go into hand with civil harassment restraining order so it's important to protect yourself so when a civil harassment restraining order is issued upon a person it basically states that you are not allowed to harass that person anymore you are supposed to stay a certain amount of distance away from them and you're not allowed to contact them and that's what happens when a self-harassment trading order is issued against you and that is what civil harassment is [Music] you