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Legal Information: Florida
Updated:
January 27, 2020Step 3: A judge will review your petition and may give you an ex parte temporary order.
When you turn in your petition to the clerk, the clerk will send it to the judge for review. If it appears to the judge that stalking exists or that there is an immediate and present danger of stalking, the judge can give you a temporary ex parte injunction, which will last until the full hearing (approximately 15 days). The judge is supposed to set the hearing date at the earliest possible time.1
1 Fla. Stat. § 784.0485(4),(5)(a),(b)
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