Fill and Sign the Restraining Order Information

TO GET A RESTRAINING ORDER UNDER THE FAMILY ABUSE PREVENTION ACT: You are eligible to use this Restraining Order procedure if you are a victim of abuse committed within 180 days* before the filing of the petition in one or more of the following ways: (1) you have been physically injured, or (2) an attempt has been made to injure you physically, or (3) you have been placed in fear of imminent and serious bodily injury, or (4) you have been forced (by actual force or threat of force) to engage in sexual relations against your will. (Physical injury or serious harm means personal harm, not damage to property or theft of property). (*Note: Any period of time after the abuse occurred during which the respondent was in jail or lived more than 100 miles from your home does not count in computing the 180- day period). AND If you are an ADULT (age 18 or older) and the abuse was committed intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly by any one of the following persons: (1) the person you are married to, or (2) the person you used to be married to, or (3) the person you presently cohabit with, or with whom you have cohabited, or (4) a person with whom you have been involved in a sexually intimate relationship anytime within the last two years before you file the petition; or (5) adults related to you by blood or marriage (including in-laws, parents, adult children, aunts, uncles, adult grandchildren and other relatives), or (6) a person not married to you with whom you have a child who is unmarried and under 18 years of age. If you are a MINOR (age 17 or younger) and the abuse was committed intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly by any one of the following persons who are 18 years of age or older: (1) the person you are married to, or (2) a person you used to be married to, or (3) a person with whom you have been involved in a sexually intimate relationship.