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The ATROs: restraining orders that take effect automatically with the summons
Every California dissolution summons carries automatic temporary restraining orders binding BOTH parties: children stay in state (no new passports), property stays put (no transfers or encumbrances outside the usual course, with advance notice for extraordinary expenditures), insurance stays intact, and nonprobate transfers freeze. They bind the petitioner at filing and the respondent at service — day-one law most people learn about too late.
The honesty note
The ATROs have express carve-outs (wills, certain trust revocations with notice, attorney-fee payments with an accounting) — read the summons itself; it states the orders.
Authority locked — retrieved from the hash-pinned corpus
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Legal information, not legal advice. Statements about county practice defer to your superior court's local rules (CRC rule 5.4 territory) and the official self-help center — where this platform has no verified county data, it says so instead of guessing.