What is the difference between a civil protection order and a restraining order?
Civil protection orders are domestic relations cases in which the court has issued a protection or restraining order designed to limit or eliminate contact between two or more individuals. Protection orders differ from non-domestic-relations restraining orders (which are civil cases) in that protection orders apply to individuals who are in a domestic relationship. They also differ from domestic violence offenses, which are criminal in nature, because the protection order focuses on the victim of the violence while the domestic violence case focuses on the perpetrator of the violence. (Source: Domestic Relations Section of Examining the Work of State Courts, 2005.
Civil protection orders are domestic relations cases in which the court has issued a protection or restraining order designed to limit or eliminate contact between two or more individuals. Protection orders differ from non-domestic-relations restraining orders (which are civil cases) in that protection orders apply to individuals who are in a domestic relationship. They also differ from domestic violence offenses, which are criminal in nature, because the protection order focuses on the victim of the violence while the domestic violence case focuses on the perpetrator of the violence.
