Restraining Orders

An interpersonal protective order is a civil court order that protects you from an abuser if you are a victim of:

• dating violence and abuse; or
• sexual assault or stalking committed by someone whom you may or may not have dated.¹

However, if the person who has sexually assaulted or stalked you is a family member or an intimate partner with whom you live(d), have a child, or married, you would file for a protective order based on domestic violence instead.  Please see Protective Orders / Domestic Violence Orders for more information.

¹ KRS § 456.030(1)