I am a 27 year old single mother of two. I recently have had to seperate my daughter from her father's side of the family do to "unusual" behaviors. And the father and I went our seprete ways. Now his sister has started stalking my daughter at school. I made a report to the police as well as informed them about her harrasing phone calls and letters to my home. I had to change my dauters school, change my number, and just last saturday she sent the police to my home yeilding guns and made a false report about myself making terristic threats and vandalising her car! What can I do, Please Help Me! Im thinking about the best interest of my children! She is odviously obsessed with my daughter, is this a common thing? She has scared my daughter to death! What legal action can i take against her? I don't know what she will do next.
2006-09-07 11:21:17 · 9 answers · asked by The Uncola 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Your county courthouse will likely have a domestic abuse service center or department that handles the filing of restraining or harrassment orders. you will need any evidence you have of past incidences of this person's harrassing you or your daughter, such as police reports or other paperwork, or just a list of dates when she physically touched or made threats to you as well as what exactly the threats were. Where I live you also pay a fee to file for this order, but it can be waived if you can show proof of being unemployed or on public assistance. In this order you will ask that this person be excluded from your home address, your daughter's school, and any other location where you wish to specify they should be kept away from your daughter.
After the intake worker writes up your temporary order, it is sent to a judge to be either approved due to enough evidence, or it could be rejected and not signed by the judge if they feel it is without merit.
If your order is approved, you keep a copy of it with you at all times, and the sheriff will be serving the order upon the respondent as soon as possible so that they are aware of the order being in effect.
The filing of a protection order is a civil matter but violation of it is a criminal offense which means that if the woman you file against ignores the order and has any contact at all with you.....email, letters, phone calls, in person, or through another person by asking them to deliver a note to you, you can call the police and report the violation. Violation of a restraining order is a crime for which they can be arrested and they will have to go to court to answer for that.
All of the above is how things are done in Minnesota, your state/county laws may vary, but the general idea should be the same.
2006-09-07 12:59:48 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First you have to document the harassment . Get witness statements as well to help you case. Then get a restrainig order (order of protection) to keep her away from your home, work and daughtr's school and activites. Then make sure her school and other places where activites take place have a copy of the order. Anytime she violates the order she has to be reported to the police. Other than moving farther way; this is about all you can do. If she violates it enough they may charge her if stalking (if it is a crime in your state), or some other crime.
2006-09-07 11:30:10 · answer #2 · answered by limgrn_maria 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I used to have an Ex-Husband who harassed me.
Some tips:
Call the telephone company and see if they can help you. I received 65 calls in one day. I called the phone company and they put a thing on my phone and as well they had me record on paper all of his calls. If you are in a large City they maybe able to help you with the phone calls and she will get in trouble. It is against the law to use the phone in that manner.
I would keep every letter she sent to you as well as the envelopes.
I would seek an Attorney's advice regarding a restraing order and a Harassement suit.
Do you think it would help to contact the Ex? It is his Child, I would think a resonable parent wouldn't want his Child to live in fear.
This woman sounds very ill, take care.
2006-09-07 11:54:16 · answer #3 · answered by Plain Jane 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get a restraining order against her, you should have done this when she was stalking your daughter at school. The law has zero tolerance toward people who prey on children, family or not, man or woman, remember the majority of child abduction is done by a friend or family member.
2006-09-07 11:26:02 · answer #4 · answered by knufflebunny 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure, you should probably consult the services of an attorney/lawyer and definitely get a restraining order first. Other legal options can be considered later.. i.e. suing for harassment.
2006-09-07 11:24:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
go to the police station and tell them everythign thats been going on and get a restraining order
2006-09-07 12:20:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sue her--
IIED (Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress)
Slander per se--calling you a terrorist
2006-09-07 11:25:42 · answer #7 · answered by Pepper 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A retraining orfer seems plausable. Definitely take it to the police though. You don't want to endanger your daugter or lose custoday thanks to false accusations.
2006-09-07 11:24:08 · answer #8 · answered by The Show Must Go On 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get a restraining order.
2006-09-07 11:23:48 · answer #9 · answered by region50 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋