# DV-105 and the children forms: which one rides with the request, and which one rides with the order > Asking for custody, visitation, and support inside a domestic violence restraining order: DV-105, DV-140, DV-108, DV-145 and FL-150, which form each is filed with, and the items the judge fills in rather than you. **Direct answer.** If you have a child with the other person, California Courts states you can ask for custody and visitation orders as part of the restraining order request rather than in a separate case. The pairing is the part people get wrong: the REQUEST forms are filed with DV-100, and the ORDER forms are filed with DV-110. So DV-105 goes with DV-100 and DV-140 goes with DV-110; the optional abduction pair, DV-108 and DV-145, splits the same way. On the order forms you complete only the first two or three items — the judge completes the rest. ## Requests ride with the request. Orders ride with the order. That single sentence resolves most of the confusion in this part of the packet. DV-100 is what you are asking for; DV-110 is the temporary order a judge signs. Each children’s form is one or the other, and it is filed alongside its counterpart. - Request for Child Custody and Visitation Orders (DV-105) — filed with DV-100. - Child Custody and Visitation Order (DV-140) — filed with DV-110. - Request for Orders to Prevent Child Abduction (DV-108), optional — filed with DV-100. - Order to Prevent Child Abduction (DV-145), optional — filed with DV-110. ## On the order forms, most of the page is not yours to fill in This is the second thing that goes wrong, and it goes wrong in the direction of doing too much. California Courts states that on DV-140 you complete items 1, 2 and 3, and on DV-145 you complete items 1 and 2. The judge completes the rest of both forms. A page that looks blank because a judge has not filled it in yet is not an incomplete page. A completeness check that flags those items as missing would be wrong, and JusticeOS does not treat the judge’s portion of an order form as your blank. ## The abduction forms are optional, and optional means optional California Courts states DV-108 and DV-145 are for a parent who believes the other parent may take the child without permission, and it says plainly that these forms are optional — you do not have to ask for those orders in order to ask for custody. They are named here because a packet that includes them is not more complete than one that does not. Adding forms you do not need is its own kind of error. ## Child support is a checkbox and a second form California Courts states that to ask for child support you check item 24 on DV-100 and then fill out an Income and Expense Declaration (form FL-150), attaching proof of income — such as pay stubs — from the past two months. On how the amount is decided, California Courts states a judge looks at both parents’ ability to pay and the amount of time each parent spends with the child, and that support is most often paid to the parent who has the child most of the time. What a judge will actually order in a particular case is not something this page can tell you. ## Spousal support has a threshold question first California Courts states spousal support can be requested if you are married to the other side or have a registered domestic partnership. If neither is true, that request is not available, and the packet is not missing anything by leaving it out. JusticeOS is not a law firm and does not give legal advice. Custody, visitation and support are decided on the facts of a case by a judge; this page describes which forms California Courts publishes for asking, and what it says about filing them. ## One thing that outlives the restraining order Orders about custody, visitation, child support and spousal support do not end when the restraining order expires. California Courts states that orders about children usually end when the child turns 18. So these forms produce something with a longer life than the order they were filed alongside — which is worth knowing before deciding whether to ask for them now or in a separate case. ## The official form is published in other languages DV-105 is published by California Courts in Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Korean, Vietnamese and Tagalog, alongside the English version. Those are the Judicial Council’s own translations of the form itself — the document you file — rather than summaries of it. Each translation is on that form’s own page at California Courts, linked under Official sources at the foot of this guide. These guides are written in English. California Courts also publishes a page on asking for a court interpreter, and makes a point worth repeating here: even for someone who speaks English in everyday life, the situations and language in court can be very difficult. ## Questions people ask next ### Which form do I file DV-105 with? With DV-100. California Courts states DV-105 is filed with the request, and its companion order form DV-140 is filed with DV-110. Requests go with the request; orders go with the order. ### Do I fill out all of DV-140? No. California Courts states you complete items 1, 2 and 3 on DV-140 and the judge completes the rest. On DV-145 you complete items 1 and 2. The rest of each order form is the judge’s to fill in, not a blank you missed. ### Do I have to file DV-108 to ask for custody? No. California Courts states DV-108 and DV-145 are optional, and that you do not have to ask for abduction-prevention orders in order to ask for custody. They are for a parent who believes the other parent may take the child without permission. ### How do I ask for child support? California Courts states you check item 24 on DV-100 and fill out an Income and Expense Declaration (form FL-150), attaching proof of your income from the past two months, such as pay stubs. ### Do the custody orders end when the restraining order ends? No. California Courts states orders for child custody, visitation, child support and spousal support do not end when the restraining order expires, and that orders about children usually end when the child turns 18. ## Official sources - [California Courts — Fill out the forms to ask for a domestic violence restraining order](https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/DV-restraining-order/fill-forms) - [California Courts — Forms for a domestic violence restraining order](https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/DV-restraining-order/forms) - [California Courts — DV-105 Request for Child Custody and Visitation Orders](https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/jcc-form/DV-105) - [California Courts — Ask for an interpreter](https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/request-interpreter) ## Related guides - [DV-100: what the California request form asks for](https://justiceos.ai/guides/dv-100) - [DV-110: the temporary order a judge fills in, not you](https://justiceos.ai/guides/dv-110) - [California domestic violence restraining-order forms: the starting packet](https://justiceos.ai/guides/california-dvro-forms) Published 2026-08-22. Reviewed against official California Courts guidance on 2026-08-22. --- JusticeOS is not a law firm, is not your lawyer, and does not give legal advice. It explains California court forms and procedure in plain language and cites official sources. In immediate danger call 911. National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233. Canonical HTML: https://justiceos.ai/guides/dv-105