Use this form if you are a professional bail bondsperson and are posting a bond for a defendant (Md. Rule 4-217).

Use this document if you are posting a bond for a defendant and you have not received compensation, charge any fees, and/or no collateral has been pledged with the execution of the bond.

Addendum To Petition For Protective Order (Description Of Respondent)

Use this form if you are a surety who have posted a bond and are requesting the bond be used to pay fines/costs, restitution, and/or be sent to a specific person wish the bond amount to be assigned to pay fines/costs or restitution.

Brochure - How To File A Peace Or Protection Order

Definition of Terms (for Use With Petition For Protection from Domestic Violence, Child Abuse, and Vulnerable Adult Abuse) - Spanish

Use this instruction form to become familiar with legal terms in protective order cases. Learn more at mdcourts.gov/dv. 

Definition of Terms (for Use With Petition For Protection from Domestic Violence, Child Abuse, and Vulnerable Adult Abuse) - French

Use this form in a domestic violence case. 

Use this form if requesting to shield domestic violence (CC-DC-DV-021 A or B) or peace order (CC-DC-PO-016 A or B) records and it is earlier than three (3) years after the denial or dismissal of the petition or after the consent expires. This is a release of all the requesting party’s claims for damages relating to this proceeding and  any and all tort claims that may arise out of this  proceeding.

Use this form in a case involving shielding information in protective order records. 

Brochure - How To File A Peace Or Protection Order

Information on how to file for a peace or protective order. See more information at mdcourts.gov/dv or mdcourts.gov/peaceorders.
 

Petition to Modify/Rescind/Extend Protective Order

Use this form if you believe a respondent has violated a protective order. Learn more at mdcourts.gov/dv. 

Use this form to ask the court for a permanent protective order. 

Use this form to ask the court for a protective order. Learn more at mdcourts.gov/dv. 

Use this form if you need more space to explain the facts in a protective order or peace order case. 

Use this form to petition for the refund of bond monies previously forfeited and collected as revenue for the state (less any expenses of the state in producing the defendant) if: the forfeiture was paid within the allowed timeframe of 90 (or 180) days; the surety produces evidence the defendant was incarcerated when the civil judgment was entered; OR the court strikes the judgment of forfeiture for fraud, mistake, or irregularity.

Use this form to change an existing protective order. Learn more at mdcourts.gov/dv. 

Use this form to petition the court to order a bond forfeiture stricken, and the civil judgment satisfied, for good cause shown  OR to extend the period for satisfaction of the bond from 90 days after the date of the defendant's failure to appear to 180 days, for good cause shown.

Use this form if you are a professional bondsperson/agent to provide or and need to update your contact information with District Court Headquarters, to be included on the required list of bail bondsmen authorized to write bail bond in the state (Md. Rule 4-217(d))the court.

Use this form to provide law enforcement with a physical description of a respondent. Learn more at mdcourt.gov/dv.