Walk It Through: The Ex
Harassment and a course of conduct, an order with no filing fee, and two years after service.
After a breakup, the partner a nurse used to live with keeps calling and messaging at all hours and waits outside the hospital after shifts.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One nurse and one former partner. Exclusive use of a shared home, emergency orders at night, and stalking that causes fear of death are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- HarassmentConduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to be seriously alarmed, annoyed, humiliated or mentally distressed, and does, done knowingly and repeatedly. A class 1 misdemeanor.
- Misdemeanor classHow Arizona grades misdemeanors: class 1 carries up to six months and $2,500, class 2 up to four months and $750, class 3 up to 30 days and $500.
- StalkingA course of conduct directed at a specific person that causes emotional distress or reasonable fear of injury, a class 5 felony, or reasonable fear of death, a class 3 felony.
- Criminal trespassKnowingly entering or remaining unlawfully on real property after a reasonable request to leave, or reasonable notice prohibiting entry: trespass in the third degree, a class 3 misdemeanor.
- Emergency order of protectionAn order a judicial officer may issue, written or oral, when the courts are closed, if a peace officer states reasonable grounds to believe a person is in immediate and present danger of domestic violence based on a recent incident.
- Order of protectionAn order restraining a person from committing domestic violence, issued on a verified petition where there is reasonable cause to believe the defendant may commit it or has within the past year. No fee is charged for filing or service.