Saeid

BACKGROUND

In July 2021, appellant and his wife obtained civil harassment restraining orders against respondent pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 527.6. Respondent appealed, and we affirmed in an unpublished decision issued in 2023. (Z.S. v. H.H. (Apr. 27, 2023, C094845, C094846, C094847, C094848).) We will refer to this as the prior appeal and the prior decision, to differentiate it from the current appeal and the current decision. We note our prior decision was based largely on the fact that the record did not contain a reporter’s transcript or an agreed or settled statement, and we thus had “no alternative but to fall back on the presumption that the superior court’s orders are correct.” The restraining orders expired on July 1, 2024. On June 27, 2024, appellant filed a request to renew the order.1 Attached to the request was a 20-page, single-spaced statement of “reasons to renew” the order, along with 48 exhibits totaling approximately 300 pages. Much of the statement simply described and/or repeated the allegations that led to the issuance of the July 2021 order. Appellant also stated, however, that respondent continued to harass him and his wife after the orders…