Personal Protection Orders

A personal protection order (PPO) is an order issued by the court. In situations where there is a domestic relationship, it can protect you from harassment, assault, beating, molesting, wounding, or stalking by another person. The order can also prohibit him/her from entering your premises and removing minor children unless the removal is part of a court parenting time order.

If you do not have a domestic relationship, the personal protection order can only protect you from stalking.

A PPO may prevent the respondent from:

• Entering your property;
• Assaulting, attacking, beating or wounding you;
• Threatening to kill or physically harm you;
• Removing your children from you if you have legal custody;
• Interfering at your place of employment;
• Interfering with your efforts to remove your children or personal property;
• Contacting you by telephone;
• Sending you mail (including e-mail);
• Purchasing or possessing a firearm