2006-09-11 04:07:22 · 4 answers · asked by Marie 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
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 they 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 place of employment, and any other location where you wish to specify.
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 person 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.
2006-09-11 08:45:53 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A restraining order in Texas has to have "clever reason" at the back of it. And it rather is for decrease than (i've got faith) 14 days. Then, she could ought to upward push up in front of a decide with evidence of why she believes youre risky or harassing. She's making an empty threat, and whether she is going and lies to get a non everlasting restaining order - it rather is going to purely final for 14 days. And, to break a restraining order in Texas is a civil offense, no longer offender - so there is not any actual enamel in it to start with.
2016-11-07 02:34:26 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it is against someone who is abusing you I would go to the nearest womans crisis center. They have people who do that for you. I believe you can go to the courthouse and file one and they will deliever it for you for a small fee.
2006-09-11 04:13:29 · answer #3 · answered by Mystie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Go to your local courthouse. The clerk's office can supply you with the proper paperwork.
2006-09-11 06:08:53 · answer #4 · answered by working mom of 3 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋