About JusticeOS
JusticeOS helps people in California prepare their own domestic violence restraining-order paperwork: the same Judicial Council forms the court clerk expects, filled from answers the person has confirmed, with a citation to an official source behind every requirement.
What it does
The product assembles the DVRO starting packet (DV-100, DV-109, DV-110 and CLETS-001, plus the local FAM-020 cover sheet for Los Angeles cases) from a guided interview, and shows every field for review before anything is generated. It also runs two free tools that need no account: a completeness check for forms someone has already filled in, and a plain-language read of any California court document they have been handed. Alongside those sit 83 source-linked guides covering the forms, filing, service, the hearing, renewal, emergency protective orders, and orders brought here from another state.
For renters in the City of Los Angeles
If you rent in the City of Los Angeles and have a notice from your landlord, or only threats, the free check shows the dates that matter, what the law requires of your landlord, and where to get free help. It fills no court forms. Check where you stand.
What it will not do
JusticeOS is not a law firm and is not anyone's lawyer. It does not give legal advice, recommend which form or legal path to take, predict what a judge will decide, or promise that a filing will be accepted. Those refusals are enforced in the product, not just stated here: a forbidden-language check runs over generated text, and every field a person will file is shown to them for confirmation first. Where something is genuinely a legal judgment, the honest answer is a court self-help center or a licensed lawyer, and the product says so.
Who it is for
People in California handling a restraining-order case without a lawyer. They usually arrive stressed, often on a phone, sometimes on a device somebody else can see, which is why a quick-exit control sits on every page, uploaded files in the free tools are processed in memory and never stored, and the sign-in page suggests using an email account the other person cannot read.
Cost
Understanding a document and checking a packet are free and need no account. Preparing a packet is $19.99 once per case, with nothing else to buy and no subscription. If somebody cannot afford it, a fee waiver unlocks the same tools at no cost; see pricing.
Who publishes it
JusticeOS is a product of Empathy Labs LLC, a California limited liability company. The governing terms are on the terms page and how data is handled is on the privacy page. To reach a person, see contact.
In immediate danger, call 911. The National Domestic Violence Hotline is 1-800-799-7233, or text START to 88788. Every California superior court runs a free self-help center.