Here’s How To Deal With Protective Orders Issued For Your Domestic Violence Case

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Heres How To Deal With Protective Orders Issued
For Your Domestic Violence Case
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• Being served with an Emergency Protection Order
  (EPO) for your domestic violence case might
  surely make you lose your temper (especially when
  you are wrongfully convicted of the offense), but
  something that your should remember at such times
  is that an EPO is a valid court order, violating
  which might result in further penalties. So,
  anger, which is one letter short of danger (quite
  literally) isnt a favourable response in such a
  situation.

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• An EPO (which is often referred by different
  terms, like, restraining orders, protection
  orders, no contact orders, mandatory restraining
  orders, etc.) is basically a court order which is
  served upon the arrestee and mandates that the
  arrested person stays away from the protected
  person (which might include his wife, family,
  home, children, personal belongings, etc.) for
  several days at a stretch.

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• This order is issued in order to allow the
  protected person to stay away from the violence
  and give them some time so that they can handle
  the situation without any fear. It is a short
  term order, normally valid for 5 to 10 days.

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• Violation of an EPO could be punishable by up to
  a year in jail and/or a 1000 fine. Moreover, it
  could also affect your bail or the ultimate
  resolution of your case. If you violate this
  order while you are out on bail and the court
  finds this out, you will most likely be taken
  back into custody and your bail could be
  drastically increased or even denied.

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• If you are issued this order, then make sure you
  comply with its terms and do not go against any
  of its terms or rules at any cost or under any
  circumstance, whatsoever.
• Make sure you stay away from the protected person
  and do not make any contact with them (which
  includes face-to-face contact, telephonic
  contact, electronic contact, or even through a
  third person). If it is absolutely necessary to
  make contact with them, then you should do so
  only through your domestic violence defense
  attorney or your attorneys representative.

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• This order could take one of these two forms
• 1) It could either be a full stay away order,
  which would require the convict to not make any
  contact with the protected person.Or, it could be
  a do not harass/annoy/molest order, which would
  allow the convict to have peaceful contact with
  the protected person, but he is still subject to
  the order. He cannot do anything to upset or
  annoy the protected person or he might get
  arrested and filed with new criminal charges.

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• 2) This order (which is generally considered a
  short term temporary order) likely remains in
  place during the pendency of a case. In some
  cases, it could even extend to several months
  until the case resolves.
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