California Code of Civil Procedure TITLE 5 - OF CONTEMPTS

• Section 1209.
  (a) The following acts or omissions in respect to a court of justice, or proceedings therein, are contempts of the authority of the court:(1) Disorderly, contemptuous, or...
• Section 1209.5.
  When a court of competent jurisdiction makes an order compelling a parent to furnish support or necessary food, clothing, shelter, medical attendance, or other remedial...
• Section 1210.
  Every person dispossessed or ejected from any real property by the judgment or process of any court of competent jurisdiction, who, not having right so...
• Section 1211.
  (a) When a contempt is committed in the immediate view and presence of the court, or of the judge at chambers, it may be punished summarily;...
• Section 1211.5.
  At all stages of all proceedings, the affidavit or statement of facts, as the case may be, required by Section 1211 shall be construed, amended,...
• Section 1212.
  When the contempt is not committed in the immediate view and presence of the court or judge, a warrant of attachment may be issued to...
• Section 1213.
  Whenever a warrant of attachment is issued pursuant to this title the court or judge must direct, by an endorsement on the warrant, that the...
• Section 1214.
  Upon executing the warrant of attachment, the officer executing the warrant must keep the person in custody, bring him before the court or judge, and...
• Section 1215.
  The person arrested must be discharged from the arrest upon executing and delivering to the officer, at any time before the return day of the...
• Section 1216.
  The officer must return the warrant of arrest and undertaking, if any, received by him from the person arrested, by the return day specified therein.(Enacted
• Section 1217.
  When the person arrested has been brought up or appeared, the court or judge must proceed to investigate the charge, and must hear any answer...
• Section 1218.
  (a) Upon the answer and evidence taken, the court or judge shall determine whether the person proceeded against is guilty of the contempt charged, and if...
• Section 1218.5.
  (a) If the contempt alleged is for failure to pay child, family, or spousal support, each month for which payment has not been made in full...
• Section 1219.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), if the contempt consists of the omission to perform an act which is yet in the power...
• Section 1219.5.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (d), in any case in which a contempt consists of the refusal of a minor under 16 years of age...
• Section 1220.
  When the warrant of arrest has been returned served, if the person arrested does not appear on the return day, the court or judge may...
• Section 1221.
  Whenever, by the provisions of this title, an officer is required to keep a person arrested on a warrant of attachment in custody, and to...
• Section 1222.
  The judgment and orders of the court or judge, made in cases of contempt, are final and conclusive.(Amended by Stats. 1951, Ch. 1737.)

Last modified: October 22, 2018