Legal Question in Family Law in California

herrassment

I would like to know what I can do to keep a sister-in-law away from my home? Her mother has alzheimer's and she lives with us and she does not want to listen to all her daughters garbage and she does not want to live with her, so she lives with us. She is 80 yrs old. The daughter is always calling me and telling everyone in the family I am making her Mom sick and I am taking things from her and so on. My mother-in-law has been living with us for 8 yrs now and I have been going through this with the daughter for years and I am tired of it. What can I do legally to keep her far away? I have a answering machine, and she still leaves nasty messages and hangs up on her mother and blames me. WHAT can I do? Oh she has called the cops and social services on me to and everything is fine!


Asked on 7/22/05, 1:37 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Lyle Johnson Bedi and Johnson Attorneys at Law

Re: herrassment

You should be able to get a civil restraining order against her. Log all of her telephone calls, and any time she comes to your home. Contact the court and ask about a mediation program in the county in which you reside. It would be better to make peace with her than get the restraining order. If you are not able to mediate the problem then contact an attorney to help you prepare the petition for the restraining order and to represent you at the trial on the restraining order. To prevail at a trial on the restraining order you will have to have witnesses to support your statements, and other evidence of her bad conduct.

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Answered on 7/22/05, 2:22 pm


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