Restraining Orders

This section defines domestic violence for the purposes of getting a protection order. Domestic violence is when a family or household member or someone you are in a dating relationship with does any of the following:

• attempts to cause or recklessly causes you bodily injury;
• by the threat of force, puts you in fear of immediate, serious physical harm;
• commits menacing by stalking;
• commits aggravated trespass;
• commits any act with respect to a child that would result in the child being an “abused child” (as defined by law),¹ which includes mental injury that harms or threatens to harm the child’s health or welfare;² or
• commits a sexually oriented offense.¹ (To read the definition of a sexually oriented offense, go to What are the definitions or stalking and sexually oriented offenses?)

¹ Ohio Rev. Code § 3113.31(A)(1)
² Ohio Rev. Code § 2151.031(D)