Personal Protection Orders

Unfortunately, not every dating relationship or marriage is defined by mutual respect. Sometimes one party will make threats or be physically violent with the other party in a relationship. A personal protection order is a court order that may protect you from being hit, threatened, harassed or stalked by another person. The order can order another from harassing you with unwanted telephone calls, visits to your home or work or unwanted gifts. The court can also order that the other person be prohibited from purchasing or possessing firearms while the order is in effect.

If you have been served with a personal protection order, you have a limited amount of time to request that the court terminate its order when it was requested frivolously. Since most of courts in southeast Michigan take petitions for a personal protection order seriously, you want an experienced attorney assisting you in making your request to terminate the order.