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Legal Information: North Carolina
Laws current as of December 10, 2024 Can I get my protection order from North Carolina enforced in another state?
If you have a valid North Carolina protection order that meets federal standards it can be enforced in another state. The Violence Against Women Act, which is a federal law, states that all valid protection orders granted in the United States receive “full faith and credit” in all state and tribal courts within the US, including US territories.
In other words, each state must enforce out-of-state protection orders in the same way it enforces its own orders. If an abuser violates your out-of-state protection order, s/he will be punished according to the laws of whatever state you are in when the order is violated.
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