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Restraining Orders

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Updated: 
December 12, 2023

I was granted temporary custody with my relief from abuse order. Will another state enforce the custody order?

Custody, visitation, and child support provisions that are included in a relief from abuse order can be enforced across state lines. Law enforcement and courts in another state are required by federal law to enforce these provisions.1

1 18 U.S.C. § 2266