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Orders of Protection: Who Can Get One Against You

By Baker Associates

Domestic violence is the root of a great deal of the criminal charges that pop up in Tennessee courts every day. It is no secret that familiarity often breeds tension and that people who spend a significant amount of time together and deal with many of life?s most serious problems together sometimes get in disputes that are taken too far. Domestic disputes sometimes rise to the level that they leave one party feeling for his or her safety. Tennessee law provides for a mechanism, called an order of protection, which allows a person who is in or has been in a domestic relationship with another person to get a court order that will impose criminal penalties on the other person if they engage in a form of forbidden contact with the victim. Plainly put, an order of protection can basically forbid one party (who will be labeled the ?respondent?) from having contact with another party (the ?victim?) by imposing criminal sanctions on the respondent if the order is violated...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on April 07, 2010 (boomark / email).