WomensLaw serves and supports all survivors, no matter their sex or gender.
Legal Information: West Virginia
Laws current as of April 1, 2024 Personal Safety Orders (for stalking, a sexual offense, or threats of bodily injury)
A personal safety order can be filed against someone with whom you do not have an intimate or family/household member relationship who has committed or attempted to commit stalking, a sexual offense, or repeated credible threats of bodily injury against you, your minor child, or an incapacitated adult. If you have an intimate or family/household member relationship with the abuser, you would have to file a domestic violence protective order instead.
© 2008–2024 WomensLaw.org is a project of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, Inc. All rights reserved. This website is funded in part through a grant from the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Neither the U.S. Department of Justice nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse, this website (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided). NNEDV is a 501©(3) non-profit organization; EIN 52-1973408.
English
Español
