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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