Safapou

BACKGROUND

Safapou raises numerous matters, but we will discuss only those relevant to the resolution of her appeal from the September 29, 2015 domestic violence restraining order. On August 25, 2015, Doroodian, appearing in propria persona, requested that the Marin County Superior Court issue a domestic violence restraining order against Safapou for the protection of himself and their teenage son. In his handwritten request, Doroodian described Safapou’s abuse as “calling SFPD to conduct (‘well check’) continuously, to appear [at] my child school, creating commotion embarrassing the child in front of school counselor, etc. handing out demeaning papers to my son as attached.” He further stated that Safapou “hands out disturbing flyers to my son, encouraging him to disobey the legal matters, encouraging him to call and defy the court order,” “continues to call the SFPD to come to my resident for no good reason,” and, although she last had a supervised visit with the son in February 2013, “keeps encountering him [at] school.” Doroodian attached to his request what appears to be copies of the front and back of a flyer. Its first page has a photo of a leopard in the upper left-hand…