Walk It Through: The Ex
More than one occasion, an order with no court costs, and a felony for stalking while it stands.
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. Possession of the home, pets under the order, and child support 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.
- Class A1 misdemeanorThe highest misdemeanor class. An assault becomes one when it inflicts serious injury, uses a deadly weapon, is by a male at least 18 on a female, or is against a child under 12, among the other cases listed.
- Course of conductTwo or more acts of following, monitoring, observing, surveilling, threatening or communicating to or about a person, or interfering with their property, which stalking is built on.
- Domestic violenceCausing or attempting bodily injury, placing someone in fear of imminent serious bodily injury or continued harassment, or a sexual offense, against a person by someone with whom they have or had a personal relationship.
- Summary ejectmentThe court procedure by which a landlord removes a tenant, available after a demand to surrender the premises, when the tenant holds over, breaks a lease term that ends the tenancy, or deserts the premises behind on rent.