Protective orders
When home isn’t safe
If you are in danger right now, call 911. If you need distance from someone and a court order to keep it, we can help you ask for one.
A protective order can keep a person from contacting you, coming to your home or work, or having the children overnight. We help you write the request, gather the texts, photos and reports that support it, and stand beside you at the hearing.
We also represent people who have been served with a request and want to tell their side. Either way, we plan how you get into and out of the courthouse safely.
Help filing quickly, often the same day you call
A plan for arriving and leaving the courthouse
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What it covers
Orders and hearings we help with
Asking for an order
Emergency and longer orders against a spouse, partner, relative or someone you dated.
Answering a request
If you’ve been served, a lawyer to explain the hearing and present your side.
Children and the order
Temporary parenting time, hand-offs through a third party, and how the order fits a custody case.
Extending or ending an order
Asking to extend an order that is about to expire, or to end one that no longer fits.
Safety questions
What people ask before asking for an order
Will the other person know I contacted you?
No. Tell us the safest way and time to reach you, and whether we can leave a message. We never call a number you haven’t told us is safe.
Does an order work in both states?
Orders are generally enforced across state lines. If you live in one state and work in the other, tell us, and we’ll make sure both places can see it.
Do I need a lawyer to ask for an order?
You don’t have to have one, but a lawyer can help you present what happened clearly and handle the other side’s lawyer if they bring one.
Reach us when it’s safe to
Use the form and tell us how to contact you, or call either office. If you’re in danger now, call 911.