Order for Protection Attorney in Prince William County, Virginia
What are the potential consequences of having a protective order issued against you?
What are the potential consequences of having a protective order issued against you?
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protective orders are civil in nature
and that means that you can never go to
jail if protective ORD is entered
against you but what people don’t always
know is that that doesn’t mean there
aren’t very serious consequences for
having a protective order entered
against you so for example there’s a
registry for protective orders these are
matters of public record and so anyone
can look up if you’ve had a protective
order entered against you and that can
of course affect for employment or other
uh other sorts of areas Additionally you
are not allowed to own possess use any
Firearms if you have a protective order
and so if for example you’re in the
military if you’re in law enforcement
these can really have uh serious career
consequences for you the last thing that
I would consider is that if you have a
protective order entered against you the
consequences for violating that are are
really serious and do include criminal
convictions in jail time so sometimes
the violation is not intentional you’ve
you’ve done something and you haven’t
meant to to have contact with the person
who obtained the protective order but
you can still find yourself in really a
serious legal uh situation in that in in
that circumstance and so you really need
to speak with an attorney don’t just
write these off as well I’m not going to
go to jail these are these are really
serious um matters and you really need
to talk about what possible defenses you
might have in defending against a
protective order
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Manassas, VA criminal defense attorney Lili R. O’Connell talks about the potential consequences of having a protective order issued against you.
