Description

Issues the following protection/restraining orders:   Domestic Violence Protective/Restraining Orders Issues orders that protects the petitioner from abuse or threats of abuse from a current or former spouse, boyfriend/girlfriend, someone they have a child with, someone they live with or someone they are related to through blood or marriage.   No Contact Order Issues orders that protect victims of crime from contact with the person accused of committing the crime.   Incident must have been reported to the police. Criminal charges must be pending. The court may issue a no contact order as part of bail hearing, arraignment or sentencing.   Anti-harassment/Stalking Protection Orders Issues orders that will protect the petitioner from another person whose behavior is abusive, threatening, exploitative or seriously alarming.    The primary purpose is to order the "respondent" to not contact or harm the "petitioner. "    Sexual Assault Protection Orders Issues orders that can require the person who committed a sexual assault to stay away from their victim, their home, school, work or other places they request, and to have no further contact with them.   Vulnerable Adult Protection Order Issues orders that protects a vulnerable adult who has been abandoned, abused, subject to financial exploitation, or neglect or threat thereof.   Can be filed by an interested person on behalf of a vulnerable adult.

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