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When you file a Request for Order (form FL-300) or a Responsive Declaration to Request for Order (form FL-320), you can also submit documents or other evidence (like a witness statement) to support what you say.

If you need a judge to make an order as soon as possible due to an emergency, you can file a request for a temporary emergency order. 

If you want to change or end any of the orders made by the judge in a Restraining Order After Hearing (form DV-130), you have to file court papers to make the request.

During your family law case, you can ask the judge for other types of things, often related to the legal process of the case. For example, ask the judge to set aside (cancel) a default or to order your spouse to finish their financial disclosures. To do this, you use the Request for Order (form FL-300). 

Once papers are filed starting a family law case (like a divorce or a parentage case), you can ask for a court date so a judge can make a decision about your financial or family situation. This is called requesting an order. You can request an order about many issues, like child or spousal support, or child custody and visitation (parenting time). 

If parents aren’t living together, the court can order one parent to pay the other parent child support. To ask the court for child support or to change a child support order, you have to file a request.

If the other person did not respond or didn't provide complete responses, try to work it out with them directly first.  If that does not work, you can request a court order that requires them to respond or respond with more information. You have 45 days to do this.

After you file your Request for Order and get a court date, you must let the other side know. You do this by having a copy of the court papers delivered to them. This is called service or having someone served.

If the other parent is an alleged father, there is another document that you should complete either immediately prior to or at the same time as filing your Adoption Request. This document is called the Application and Order to Dispense with Further Notice of Adoption Planning.

After the judge makes temporary emergency orders, you file your Request for Order and get a court date, you must let the other side know. You do this by having another adult, not you, hand a copy of the court papers to them. This is called personal service or having someone personally served. 

If you were served a Request for Order (form FL-300), this means that you have a court date where a judge will make a decision about the issue listed next to the "other" box on Page 1 of the form. You can find out more about what they're asking the court to decide in Box 8 on page 4.