Restraining Orders

In an ex parte or final non-domestic sexual assault personal protection order, the judge can order the respondent not to:

• go onto a specific piece of property or into a specific place;
• threaten to sexually assault, kill, or physically harm you or someone else;
• attend school in the same building as you – but this only applies if you are a minor who has been the victim of sexual assault and you and the abuser are both enrolled in a public or private school from kindergarten to 12^th grade;
• buy or have a firearm;
• interfere with your efforts to remove your children or personal property from a home or place that is solely owned or leased by the respondent;
• show up at your home or workplace;
• interfere with you at your workplace or school or do anything that harms your employment or educational relationships/environment;
• follow you or come within your sight;
• approach you or confront you in a public place or on private property;
• go onto, remain on, place an object on, or deliver an object to, property owned, leased, or occupied by you;
• contact you by telephone, text message, mail, or email;
• post any messages through the Internet, a computer, or any electronic medium that violates the law against posting messages through an electronic medium without consent; and
• do any other specific act or behave in a way that interferes with your personal liberty or that causes you to be in reasonable fear of violence or sexual assault.¹

¹ MCLA § 600.2950a(2),(3)