Use this form to provide law enforcement with a description of a respondent for service of process. Learn more at mdcourts.gov/peaceorders.

 

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 Peace Order

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

Use this form if disclosing your address on a Peace Order petition would put you at risk of further harm. 

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.

Brochure - How To File A Peace Or Protection Order

Use this form in a peace order case. Learn more at mdcourts.gov/peaceorders. 

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

Use this form to tell the court that an individual has violated a peace order. Learn more at mdcourts.gov/peaceorders. 

Use this form to ask the court to grant a peace order. Learn more at mdcourts.gov/peaceorders. 

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 peace order. Learn more at mdcourts.gov/peaceorders. 

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.