4175 Main St · Downtown Riverside
Riverside Family Law Court
Court Guide
Riverside County's downtown family law court — divorce, custody, support, and domestic violence restraining orders. Criminal cases and bail are handled at the Hall of Justice, 75 addresses up the same street.
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Riverside Family Law Courthouse
4175 Main St, Riverside, CA 92501
(951) 777-3147
Family law courthouse (no criminal calendar)
Court hours Monday–Friday · Midnight Bail Bonds open 24 hours
This is not an adult criminal court and no bail is posted here. For an adult case in the same family, we post bonds county-wide from our office at 965 N Vignes St #5, Los Angeles, CA 90012.
(213) 295-7796
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Courthouse Overview
What This Courthouse Handles
Cities & Areas Served
Nearby Courts & Facilities
Juvenile Court FAQs
Courthouse Overview
The Riverside Family Law Courthouse sits at 4175 Main Street in downtown Riverside, part of the cluster of Superior Court buildings along Main between the Historic Courthouse and the Hall of Justice. The Superior Court lists a single case category for this location: family law. Departments F201, F301, F401, F402, F501, and F502 occupy the second through fifth floors.
The proximity is the problem worth naming up front. Three courthouses stand within a few hundred feet of each other on Main Street, all with similar four-digit addresses. The Hall of Justice at 4100 Main is the adult criminal court — arraignments, bail hearings, preliminary hearings, and trials. The 1903 Historic Courthouse at 4050 Main carries civil and probate. This building at 4175 is family law and nothing else. Showing up at the wrong address with a hearing in ten minutes is a common, avoidable mistake.
Family law and criminal law overlap constantly in practice but almost never procedurally. A domestic violence arrest can generate a criminal case at the Hall of Justice and a restraining order petition here on the same week, arising from the same night, with separate case numbers, separate judges, and separate calendars. Neither court resolves the other. A criminal protective order does not substitute for a family law restraining order, and dismissal of one has no automatic effect on the other.
We are a bail bond company, so our honest position is that we have no function inside this building. There is no bond posted for a custody hearing. Where we matter is the custody side of the overlap: when someone is booked into the Robert Presley Detention Center downtown and a family law date is coming up, getting them released is what allows them to appear at all. Riverside County's October 2025 bail schedule changed how quickly many releases happen — Cite and Release and Book and Release categories move people out without a bond at all, while Pre-Arraignment Review holds others for a judicial decision.
Official court information: Superior Court of Riverside County — Riverside Family Law Courthouse
At A Glance
- Riverside Family Law Courthouse
- 4175 Main St, Riverside, CA 92501
- (951) 777-3147
- Family law courthouse (no criminal calendar) — not an adult criminal court
- Court hours Monday–Friday · we answer 24 hours for adult bail matters
What This Courthouse Handles
The Superior Court lists family law as the only case type at 4175 Main Street. In practice that covers the following.
Dissolution & Legal Separation
Divorce petitions, legal separation, nullity, property division, and the judgment process that ends a marriage or domestic partnership.
Child Custody & Visitation
Custody orders, parenting plans, visitation schedules, and modification requests when circumstances change. Child Custody Recommending Counseling is part of this process.
Child & Spousal Support
Support orders, guideline calculations, modifications, and enforcement — including matters brought through the Department of Child Support Services.
Domestic Violence Restraining Orders
DVRO petitions, temporary orders, and the noticed hearings that follow. These are civil orders, distinct from a criminal protective order issued by a judge at the Hall of Justice.
Parentage & Related Petitions
Establishing parentage and the custody and support orders that follow from it.
Not Heard Here
No criminal calendar, no arraignments, no bail hearings, no traffic. Adult criminal matters for the western county are at the Riverside Hall of Justice; civil and probate are at the Historic Courthouse.
Which Cities & Areas Route Here
Family law filings for western Riverside County concentrate downtown. These are the communities whose matters are commonly calendared here.
Riverside
The county seat and the largest source of filings. Criminal cases from the same addresses route one block over to the Hall of Justice.
View PageMoreno Valley
The Moreno Valley Courthouse carries civil, small claims, evictions, and traffic — not family law, so those matters come downtown.
View PageJurupa Valley & Eastvale
Northwestern county cities without their own courthouse; both family and criminal matters travel to downtown Riverside.
View PageCorona & Norco
The Corona Courthouse hears traffic, small claims, unlawful detainers, and civil only — family law is heard here.
View PagePerris & Mid-County
Mid-county family filings split between downtown Riverside and the Menifee Justice Center, which opened in 2024 with a family law calendar.
View PageNearby Courts & Facilities
No one is held in custody at the family law courthouse. These are the nearby courts and facilities that come up alongside a family case.
Riverside Hall of Justice
4100 Main St, Riverside, CA 92501
The adult criminal court a short walk down Main Street. Arraignments, bail settings, and bail review for the western county happen here, not at 4175.
View PageRobert Presley Detention Center
4000 Orange St, Riverside, CA 92501
The downtown county jail, roughly two blocks from this courthouse. Anyone arrested in the western county on a domestic violence or related charge is typically booked here.
View PageRiverside Historic Courthouse
4050 Main St, Riverside, CA 92501
Civil and probate calendars in the 1903 landmark. Not family law and not criminal — a third address on the same block.
View PageRiverside Juvenile Courthouse
9991 County Farm Rd, Riverside, CA 92503
Delinquency and dependency matters involving minors, several miles west. Families with both a dependency case and a family law case deal with two separate buildings.
View PageMenifee Justice Center
27401 Menifee Center Dr, Menifee, CA 92584
The mid-county family law and civil court that opened July 8, 2024, absorbing the closed Hemet Courthouse's caseload.
View PageJuvenile Court FAQs
Questions specific to Riverside Family Law Courthouse and how this court differs from the adult criminal courts nearby.