Restraining Orders

For the purposes of getting a domestic violence order of protection, “domestic abuse” is when a “household member” does any of the following things to you:

• physically abuses or threatens to physically abuse you;
• attempts to cause or causes physical harm or acts that unreasonably restrain your personal freedom, such as forcibly holding you down;
• puts you in fear of immediate physical harm; or
• makes you have sex or engage in sexual activity by force, threat of force, or coercion (“duress”).¹

¹ Wyo. Stat. § 35-21-102(a)(iii)