Screen filings for a protected person's address before service or publication
Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- List every place an address, phone number, school or workplace appears in the draft packet, and whether the instructions say the person uses a substitute address. Redact nothing yourself.
- What the lawyer must review
- 18 USC section 2265(d)(3) forbids a state, tribe or territory from making publicly available on the internet information about the registration, filing or issuance of a protection order if publication would be likely to reveal the identity or location of the protected person. The California Secretary of State's Safe at Home program provides a substitute mailing address for victims of domestic violence and certain other people, which state, county and city agencies accept in place of a residential address. Family Code section 6345 allows service on the Secretary of State, rather than personal service, when the protected person has met the Government Code section 6205 requirements and a non-protected party seeks to change or end the order. You check every page that will be served or posted. Opinion 512 and Model Rule 1.6: do not put the residential address into a public tool.
- Written for / version
- United States versionUS
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Potential support includes preparing preliminary structure or wording. Confirm the tool’s capability and permitted scope. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Check the current court or regulator requirements, prescribed form and attachments for the intended document and filing.
- Confirm instructions and personal circumstances through appropriate direct engagement. Have the responsible lawyer assess safety, capacity or vulnerability concerns and escalation.
- Confirm the output against the client’s instructions and the complete relevant source material, including omissions or contradictions.
- Resolve exceptions and record the responsible lawyer’s approval of the exact output and intended use.