Protective orders are designed to safeguard victims of domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault, and other crimes by legally requiring abusers to stay away. However, obtaining one can be daunting ...

For Washingtonians trying to cut contact with their domestic abusers and stalkers, civil protection orders are often a necessary legal step. But the process of filing one can be tricky to navigate.

A protective order was filed in court on Wednesday concerning videotaped statements concerning a victim in the case of a former Madison County daycare worker arrested on child sexual abuse ...

A Tacoma woman and her ex-boyfriend who died in a homicide-suicide earlier this month sought protection orders against each other for domestic violence, court records show. Diana Pham, 39, died from a ...

The accused individual challenged a criminal protective order during an arraignment hearing, arguing there was no probable ...

The Connecticut Supreme Court has just redrawn the line that separates your right to own a gun from the court’s power to take it away when a protective order is in place. Instead of treating firearm ...

The Washington Hope Card program, initially launched Jan. 1, has now sent out 2,000 wallet-sized copies of protection orders for vulnerable adults and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Advocacy groups offering assistance to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault say a statewide change caused by an I-Team 8 investigation could be critical for a survivor ...