---
title: "Build the order, service, and expiry register"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/family-violence-and-protection-orders/build-the-order-service-and-expiry-register/united-states"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A53-X20260927-2-US"
practice_area: "Family Violence & Protection Orders"
tier: "green"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["US"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-22"
---

# Build the order, service, and expiry register

> Record the order type, the service date printed on the proof, and the expiry date printed on the order. If the order prints no expiry, leave that cell blank and flag it. Do not calculate a date.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/practice/family-violence-and-protection-orders/build-the-order-service-and-expiry-register/united-states  
Last reviewed: 2026-10-22

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## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Practice area | [Family Violence & Protection Orders](https://ailawframework.com/practice/family-violence-and-protection-orders.md) |
| Human involvement | Green: AI drafts, lawyer checks |
| How AI is used | Record the order type, the service date printed on the proof, and the expiry date printed on the order. If the order prints no expiry, leave that cell blank and flag it. Do not calculate a date. |
| What the lawyer must review | For a California personal-conduct, stay-away, or residence-exclusion order issued after notice and a hearing, Family Code section 6345 allows a duration of not more than five years. The order may be renewed, on request, for five or more years or permanently, without a showing of further abuse. The renewal request may be brought within the three months before expiry. Failure to state an expiration date creates an order of three years from issuance. You apply that default. The register only flags a blank. A protection order consistent with 18 USC section 2265(b) receives full faith and credit in another state, tribe, or territory, and registration is not a prerequisite. Section 2265(d)(3) forbids public internet publication of registration information that would likely reveal the identity or location of the protected party. If the protected party uses the Safe at Home program, Family Code section 6345 requires service of a termination or modification motion, brought by someone else, on the Secretary of State. |
| Written for | United States |
| Applies to | [Build the order, service and expiry register](https://ailawframework.com/practice/family-violence-and-protection-orders/build-the-order-service-and-expiry-register.md) |

## Checking plan

- What the AI does: Record the order type, the service date printed on the proof, and the expiry date printed on the order. If the order prints no expiry, leave that cell blank and flag it. Do not calculate a date.
- Basis: Checked against the linked sources on 22 October 2026. Confirm the current instrument before reliance.

## Notes

- The five-year and three-year rules are California. Another state sets its own duration.
- Do not put the protected party address in a shared draft. Section 2265(d)(3) limits internet publication.

## Sources

- [California Family Code section 6345 (duration and renewal of restraining orders)](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=FAM&sectionNum=6345.) (checked 2026-10-22)
- [18 USC section 2265 (full faith and credit for protection orders)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2265) (checked 2026-10-22)
- [California Secretary of State: Safe at Home](https://www.sos.ca.gov/registries/safe-home) (checked 2026-10-22)

## Forms and precedents for this task

| Form or precedent | Kind | AI level | Summary |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Letter of advice to a protected person: what the apprehended violence order means and what to do next (NSW)](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/family-violence-and-protection-orders/protected-person-advice-letter-advo.md) | Letter | Red | Plain-language letter to a protected person after an ADVO is made: the conditions, that only the defendant can breach it, reporting breaches, service, extension before expiry, interstate recognition… |
| [National Domestic Violence Order Scheme checklist: recognition, enforcement and variation of interstate and foreign orders](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/family-violence-and-protection-orders/national-dvo-scheme-recognition-enforcement-checklist.md) | Checklist | Yellow | Checklist for a client protected by, or bound by, a domestic violence order made in another Australian jurisdiction or registered from New Zealand: is it recognised in NSW, is it enforceable, and… |
| [Application for court review of a police protection direction (Queensland Form DV59A)](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/family-violence-and-protection-orders/form-qld-dv59a-review-police-direction.md) | Form | Yellow | Link to Queensland Form DV59A, version 1, first published on 19 December 2025, the application for court review of a police protection direction. |
| [Register of protection orders: making, service and expiry (NSW)](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/family-violence-and-protection-orders/order-service-expiry-register.md) | Checklist | Green | Register of each apprehended violence order on the file: the period written on the order, service or presence, and, for an APVO that states no period, the 12-month default in section 79. |

Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*