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in this video I'm going to share with you five tips for winning your restraining order hearing and this applies whether you are defending against someone requesting a restraining order against you or whether you're trying to get a restraining order against someone else my name is Veronica I am a criminal defense attorney and restraining order attorney here in Los Angeles and I help people put their cases behind them so that they can enjoy their lives their freedom and their family so this video again it's going to be five tips that you can use to try to win your restraining order hearing give you the best possible shot now a lot of people cannot necessarily afford an attorney for a restraining order hearing particularly because these are usually on an emergency basis so for criminal defense for those cases in general we can give a little bit more of a payment plan but myself and a lot of other attorneys are not going to to be as willing to do that when you need somebody to show up in court for you and win this thing for you next week and so I end up talking to people all of the time who cannot necessarily afford to hire an attorney right now but they have this restraining order hearing maybe their ex filed one against them and now they haven't been able to see their kids and they are desperate to win this thing and it's going to be a big deal if they don't work maybe they're maybe it's filed not even by their ex or very very recent acts who filed against them and now they can't even go back home they're living in their car they need to win this and they need help but obviously they can't necessarily hire someone um also I have the pleasure of frequently so I will get hired for these cases sometimes but the other side doesn't have an attorney and you know I'm sort of laughing about this not it because most of the time I think I usually believe my clients in these cases um and when the other side is doing something that I think is really wrong like filing a restraining order um lying in a temporary restraining order so that for three weeks until the formal hearing my client won't be able to see their kids little kids and the little kids won't be able to see their parent my client um I think that that's really wrong and I absolutely love and cherish demolishing them when they show up without an attorney on the day of the hearing um and strategically I generally don't inform them that I've been retained ahead of time I don't want them to get ideas about hiring counsel I want it to be we're gonna freaking go that day you thought you were going to bully my client well now I'm here and it's not going to go the way that you thought um anyway but I watched them freaking flounder um and I also end up watching restraining order hearings from two litigants who are neither one has an attorney and I'll see some of them flandering around like you but um you know I can't I'm in the courtroom there so just just watching and waiting so I can help my own client so let's go through these five things that you should know um so number one is do not do not interrupt do not interrupt the other side do not interrupt the judge do not interrupt okay and I mean this is an absolute rule if the judge starts talking when you're talking zip it no no more talking please let the judge interrupt you do not interrupt the judge I would also even go so far as to say let the other party interrupt you if the other party is being inappropriate and interrupting you let them because the judge will see that they are unreasonable and they are a bully nobody in the courtroom like any of the professional lawyers clerk judge likes interrupting there is a court reporter there or in some um some courtrooms now in Los Angeles they are just using like a a recorder but you can't it messes up the transcript and all Court proceedings either will be transcribed or can be transcribed so people can't talk over each other so everyone who knows what's going on in the courtroom is like just like really cringing when someone interrupts don't be that person and let the other side be that person if they want to like even more delicious if they interrupt the judge which is going to piss the judge off um I just I have to add I have a little list here but I just have one more that I want to make sure I add that's a little bonus one second foreign that will be a little bonus um number two is be organized have your documents ready have at least two copies of each document and I recommend putting the document in a binder let me see I think I actually have one here but I can show without showing the client's name okay ideally you have like a binder like this right where you can easily just flip to it and get to any document that you're going to want to show the court and don't think some people will think my clients will think um that you want to do like a kitchen sink approach you want to give them the judge as many documents as you can gather about anything that's marginally related no no the judge will be annoyed by that that the judge many times they'll have like 25 of these hearings on calendar find the documents that are actually relevant read the documents that the other side has written if they wrote something or even look at your own if you filed something look at the documents that actually support that and use those documents and have them ready have them ready to go have it nice and beautiful so when the other side has you know crumpled papers is trying to show things on their phone you are ready foreign bring a computer with you bring a laptop with you if you have to do an iPad I guess do it but if you have a laptop or can borrow one bring that laptop with you and when you hear the other side testify type up some questions as you go if you have any additional questions you're not going to remember them it's a high stress situation are you going to try to write them down I don't know about you but I am a much faster typer than I am like at handwriting things and you know the first few trials that I had as a trial attorney I thought oh I shouldn't bring you know I shouldn't be like using my computer to write things down it will look I want to look like the layers on TV that only have paper and I don't have you know this laptop in front of me that's kind of separating me from the judge and I would have all of my questions for the witnesses printed out but then I was trying to write on there like you know I have it organized by subject and I'm trying to write and there's some additional question based on what was just testified to I think it's best like that's okay if you have no other option but I think it's best to use a laptop the first time that I decided to use a laptop was I got a trial at the very last minute and I was kind of scrambling like using every minute that I wasn't sleeping to work on this case and so I just brought my laptop with me just kind of out of necessity and at the end of the case which I won by the way the judge complimented me saying Miss Parton you're you were so organized and so prepared and I was like I feel like I was kind of scrambling there but the reason was I realized was that I would always I mean I always organize my questions by subject which I think probably every attorney does um and is what you should do but don't worry too much about that if you're you have a lot to worry about if you're trying to do this on your own um but I organized by subject and then I would just add in the questions it was super easy for me they're bullet points I would just add them in as I went so that I mean I I really think that that is kind of like a Magic Bullet I haven't seen that many attorneys doing that but when I do that it kind of frees me up to first of all I know I won't forget anything I am very fast at typing especially compared to writing so I will get all of my questions in there and it frees me up during cross-examination instead of trying to think of like Oh shoot what what other question did I want to ask like oh trying to peer it like my own writing which you know if it's if it's a lot of testimony you might be like trying to appear at your own writing and you're writing in the margins and it's crazy and you're like what does that say this is much better it frees me up to just work on my delivery of my cross-examination which again isn't something that you should necessarily worry about but it makes sure that I have I have everything there it's more relaxing it's it's just it's much better so hot tip there that you don't need to be allergic to know um number four this one should be obvious but you have to keep your emotions in check you have to you can you you're going to get pissed off during this hearing you're going to hear lies about you and you're going to want to do maybe even what I just saw a selfie self-represented litigant do against or try to do against me and my client which is objection she's lying that's not a valid objection and don't get angry when you're getting crossed cross-examined by the other side if it's the two of you like you guys just got divorced or something you have kids you still have to deal with each other and uh you two are asking each other questions do not let this turn into a marital dispute the other side might the other side might get all fired up that's fine that's actually good let them do that they've lost their cool they look like a jerk in front of the judge you stay calm and collected because a lot of this is going to be about credibility unless there's video of one party like abusing or harassing the other something very clear it's about credibility so if you keep it Palm if you keep it credible that is going to go a very long way to the judge deciding in your favor um number five is learn some basic objections so one of the easiest ways to bulldoze A self-represented litigant is for me to object based on Foundation if you don't know what that is look it up this is not a crash course in evidence that I'm giving you right here but it's basically like if someone's asking a question of another party um or if they're testifying about something um that they say they know you have to establish how they know right so you can't just say and what color was her dress what color was Veronica's dress that day you couldn't ask that question without establishing first that the person saw me that day and that I was wearing a dress you can't just assume all these facts and like snowball them into this not snowball but roll them up into this one question that contains all these assumptions and that assumes that the other person even has knowledge of any of this um so that's a big one hearsay is a big one when people try to say um any out of court statement that is offered for the truth of the matter asserted unless there are a bunch of exceptions is hearsay so someone who's trying to bring in um police reports this was one that somebody just tried to bring in um that I objected to and it was thrown out for hearsay try to learn some basic objections and if you start if you hear the other side or you see that they have a document that's um something that was said out of court and they're using this to show that this is true just object just say objection hearsay and if it's not hearsay don't do it after everything that they say you'll annoy the judge but um unless the judge sustains your first objection they keep trying then keep objecting um with the same grounds and the judge will probably get annoyed and tell them to move on but um object based on hearsay if the judge doesn't agree with you then the judge will um will overrule your emotion but otherwise you might shut down a lot of what the other side was planning to to say leaving them completely flustered and unable to present their case all right and now the bonus that I thought of it made you wait well I typed my note on um is listen to the judge's questions and statements from the judge and try to figure out what he or she is thinking or what path they are going down and go on that same path as much as you can um try to I even will look at the judge's face during um during a hearing sometimes when the other side is presenting something because judges have tells sometimes I mean I can see the judge kind of like squinting or looking impatient looking annoyed looking sometimes looking back at me because they want me to object because they're tired of hearing whatever testimony it is so try to look at the judge see what they're thinking listen to what the judge says and again if the judge tries to cut you off you are cut off listen to why they're cutting you off if the judge asks you a question listen to the question and answer the question don't go off and say a bunch of other stuff don't ignore the question and talk about something else you want to talk about the judge is asking that question for a reason um anyway I hope that you found this video helpful if you do have a restraining order if you are looking to hire an attorney in Los Angeles or the surrounding County of Southern California please feel free to book a call with me you can call my number right down below or you can also click on the link to book a consultation there