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Restraining Orders

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Updated: 
January 23, 2024

Who can get a civil no contact order?

Under Illinois law, you can for a civil no contact order if:

  1. you are the victim of one or more incidents of non-consensual sexual conduct or non-consensual sexual penetration;
  2. you are filing on behalf of a minor child who is a victim;
  3. you are filing on behalf of an adult who is a victim but cannot file on his/her own because of age, disability, health, or inaccessibility; 
  4. you are filing on behalf of any family or household member who is a victim but only after receiving consent from the victim to do so; 
  5. you are a service member in the Illinois National Guard or any reserve military component serving within Illinois who is a victim and you also have a military protective order; or
  6. you are part of the Staff Judge Advocate of the Illinois National Guard or any reserve military component serving within the Illinois, and you are filing on behalf of a victim who has also received a military protective order but only only after receiving consent from the victim to do so.1

Note: For the situations described in numbers 4 and 6, above, the petition must include a statement that the victim has consented to the petitioner filing the petition.1

Your civil no contact order can also protect your family or household members and any rape crisis center advocate who is assisting you.2

1 740 ILCS 22/201(b)
2 740 ILCS 22/201(a)