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Printable No-Trespass Notice & Rights Card

A written notice to hand any unwelcome visitor who has no warrant — a CPS or social-services worker, a government investigator, or anyone else — to revoke their license to be on your property and assert your rights. Fill it in, print, and sign. Free and private: nothing you type leaves your browser.

Please read — this matters. This is a self-help template, general information, not legal advice. Anyone — a CPS worker, a government agent, or a private party — who merely walks up and knocks has a customary “implied license” to do so and has violated nothing; this notice revokes that license, so that further or continued presence becomes trespass. But a court order, a warrant, or a genuine emergency (someone in immediate danger of serious harm) overrides this notice — a judge can authorize entry or a return. If you are shown a valid court order/warrant, or someone is in genuine immediate danger, comply and call your attorney — do not physically interfere. In public or during a lawful police stop, officers may have authority a private citizen does not. Rules vary by state; talk to an attorney about your situation.

Fill these in — they print onto the notice:

WRITTEN TRESPASS NOTICE & REVOCATION OF LICENSE

Date/Time:    •  Name:  
Property:    •  To:  

BY THIS WRITTEN NOTICE, YOU ARE HEREBY TRESPASSED from this property. You are on notice, in writing, that you are barred from entering or remaining, and are directed not to return, without a court order or warrant signed by a judge.

  1. Regardless of your stated reason for being here — whether you are a government agent, official, investigator, or private party — you have no more right than any private citizen to access my property, enter my home or its curtilage, speak to my family, or otherwise intrude. By this notice I revoke any license for you to be here and direct you to leave.
  2. Unless you have (a) a court order or warrant signed by a judge, (b) my voluntary consent, or (c) a genuine emergency — an objectively reasonable belief, on specific, articulable facts, that a person faces an immediate threat of serious harm — you have no authority to enter or remain. Leave now.
  3. A generalized concern, an anonymous tip, a suspicion, or an unspecified “emergency” does not create that authority. Any real authority to enter comes from a court order.
  4. Having been trespassed in writing, if you enter, remain, or return without a court order and without a genuine, fact-based emergency, you are acting unlawfully and may be committing criminal trespass. The right to be free from warrantless entry of a home absent consent or a genuine emergency is clearly established law — so a government official who violates it can be sued personally for money damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and qualified immunity does not shield the violation of a clearly established right. This notice revokes any license — express or implied — for you to enter, remain on, or return to my property, so that any continued or further presence is unprivileged. I reserve the right to pursue all remedies, including but not limited to financial damages for the violation of my civil rights.
  5. Any questions for me or my household may be submitted in writing by mail to the address above, so I may forward them to my attorney. I do not consent to any search of my home, property, or belongings, or to any interview of my children.

Signed: __________________________

⚠ If shown a valid court order/warrant, or if someone is in genuine immediate danger, this notice does NOT bar entry — comply and call your attorney. Do not physically interfere. In public or during a lawful police stop, officers may have authority a private citizen does not; this notice concerns access to your private property. A judge can authorize entry or return.