{"id":47385,"date":"2015-09-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/duplicate-3504444.findlaw4.flsitebuilder.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/how-much-do-you-know-about-protective-orders-here-in-tennessee\/"},"modified":"2020-03-18T10:42:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T15:42:36","slug":"how-much-do-you-know-about-protective-orders-here-in-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/blog\/2015\/09\/how-much-do-you-know-about-protective-orders-here-in-tennessee\/","title":{"rendered":"How much do you know about protective orders here in Tennessee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people understand that if they&#8217;ve been charged with domestic abuse, they are facing some potentially serious criminal consequences including jail time, large fines and a permanent record.<\/p>\n<p>What they may fail to comprehend, however, is that there will also likely be certain collateral consequences, including the issuance of a protection order that will subject them to a host of real world restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s post, the first in a series, we&#8217;ll start taking a closer look at some basic background information on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenslaw.org\/laws_state_type.php?id=590&amp;state_code=TN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protective orders here in Tennessee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In general, state law dictates that any victim of domestic abuse &#8212; female or male &#8212; can seek to secure a protection order against a certain party provided they have a specific relationship with that person. For example, protection orders can be issued against current\/former spouses, current\/former boyfriends and girlfriends, and family members, to name only a few.<\/p>\n<p>In order to secure a protection order against any of these parties based on domestic abuse, a person must allege one or more of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Physical harm<\/li>\n<li>Attempted physical harm<\/li>\n<li>Actions that instill a fear of physical harm<\/li>\n<li>Threats of physical harm<\/li>\n<li>Property destruction<\/li>\n<li>Physical restraint<\/li>\n<li>Threats or actual physical harm to animals owned by the person or their minor child<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tennessee courts can issue two types of protection orders for victims of domestic abuse: temporary protection orders (TPOs) and extended protection orders (EPOs). We&#8217;ll examine the circumstances in which these are typically issued in a future post along with the restrictions mandated by each.<\/p>\n<p>If you are facing any sort of charges for domestic abuse, consider speaking with an experienced legal professional who will listen to your side of the story, and work to protect <a href=\"\/criminal-defense\/domestic-assault\/\">your rights and your future<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people understand that if they&#8217;ve been charged with domestic abuse, they are facing some potentially serious criminal consequences including jail time, large fines and a permanent record. What they may fail to comprehend, however, is that there will also likely be certain collateral consequences, including the issuance of a protection order that will subject [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-violence"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.internetfactfinder.com\/levittandlevitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}