Walk It Through: The Protective Order and the Lease
An emergency order, a new lock, a lease clause about police calls, and thirty days to leave.
After an assault at home, a tenant files for a protective order at the circuit clerk's office.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
A tenant protected by an order under a lease made or renewed after the protected tenant law took effect. The order hearing itself is walked through separately.
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.
- Domestic violence orderThe order a court may issue after a hearing on finding that domestic violence occurred and may occur again, for up to three years and renewable.
- Interpersonal protective orderAn order for a victim of dating violence, stalking or sexual assault, who need not be a family or household member.
- Protected tenantA tenant protected by a domestic violence order or interpersonal protective order restraining contact, under a lease made or renewed on or after June 29, 2017.
- Emergency protective orderAn order a court issues on the day a petition is filed when it shows an immediate and present danger of domestic violence, lasting until the hearing.