Walk It Through: The Ex
Repeated messages, a finding of family violence, and a Class A misdemeanor for breaking the order.
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. Firearms under the order, orders protecting a child, and the dating violence application split 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.
- StalkingKnowingly engaging, on more than one occasion and as part of the same course of conduct directed at a specific person, in conduct that is harassment or threatening, that causes fear and would do so to a reasonable person. It is a felony of the third degree.
- Family violenceAn act by a member of a family or household against another member intended to result in physical harm, bodily injury, assault or sexual assault, or a threat that reasonably places the member in fear of it. It also includes child abuse and dating violence.
- Protective orderThe order a court renders after finding that family violence has occurred, effective for the period it states, up to two years.