District of Columbia Petition and Affidavit for a Civil Protection Order

A petition is a formal request seeking a specific court order, made by a person, group, or organization to the court, typically at the start of a lawsuit.A petition asks the court to provide a court order, while a complaint is filed to seek damages or to get the defendant to start or stop doing something.

If you have had a restraining order placed against you, you may wonder if that will show on a background check and how it will affect you. Typically, restraining orders are civil, which means they shouldn't show on a criminal background check.

In order to be eligible for a protective order, you must have been, within a reasonable period of time, subjected to an act involving violence, force, or threat that results in bodily injury or places you in reason- able fear of death, sexual assault, or bodily injury. (See Code of Virginia §19.2-152.10).

Only once the final order is made, it will be permanent and can only be changed by applying to the courts. Any victim of domestic/gender-based violence is advised to first register a criminal case at their local police station. In doing so it supports the application for a protection order.

If you believe the protection order was granted improperly or that it is no longer needed, you can file a motion asking the court to dissolve (terminate or cancel) the protection order.If the court schedules a hearing and grants the motion, the protection order will become immediately void and unenforceable.

1Reconciliation. Strangers do not perpetrate DV, someone they love does. When someone you love is the perpetrator, leaving for good is the hardest part.2Children. Kids miss their parents, and parents miss their kids. There is a constant pressure for a parent to return to being a "family."

A person does not get a criminal record if there is a Personal or Workplace Protection Order against them. They only get a criminal record if they are found guilty in court of not doing what the Personal or Workplace Protection Order says. This is called 'breaching' the Order.

6. Civil Protection Orders do not create a criminal record. When you get a Civil Protection Order against someone, the order by itself does not give that person a permanent criminal record.

It is confidential. It is used so that your restraining order can be entered into a statewide computer system that lets the police know about your order.