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Order of Protection Series (Part 6): How the Courts (Family and Others) Address Orders of Protection

If you’ve followed my bullet point series on orders of protection until now, you’ll know that these documents can be a common consideration in a range of divorce and family law cases. When a family “offense” takes place, causing danger to a specific member of the family unit, an order…

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Order of Protection Series (Part 5): Immediate Hearings and Removal from Home

Welcome back to this series of bullet point guides on the topic of “Orders of Protection”. In this bullet point guide, I’m aiming to provide you with some useful information that may be helpful when making decisions about your Order of Protection case. Today’s segment of the bullet point guide…

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Order of Protection Series (Part 4): Petitions and Child Testimony

Welcome back to another issue of our Order of Protection series. This series of bullet point guides aims to tell you different tidbits to know about orders of protection, and how they can affect your life when dealing with family as defined in the law which could be blood relatives…

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Order of Protection Series (Part 3): Custody and Orders of Protection, and Time Limits

Welcome back to another issue in our family law Order of Protection Series. This guide follows the similar guides I’ve created in the past for child custody and equitable distribution. If you’d like to learn more about custody, orders of protection, and the other issues mentioned here, you can find…

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Order of Protection Series (Part 2): What Are Orders of Protection and Defining Family

Welcome to your complete bullet point guide to orders of protection involving family members, and family offenses. This series is inspired by the other guides I’ve created on this blog to help my clients understand complex topics like divorce, equitable distribution, child custody, and child support. Orders of protection can…

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Order of Protection (Part 1): Pendente Lite Orders of Protection & Private Investigators

For a while now, I’ve been working on bullet point series on my website as a way of delivering useful information about family law in an easy-to-consume format. Recently, I finished a serious on child support. Today, I’m starting a new series which will revolve around orders of protection and…

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Immediate Hearing if Removal From Home for Family Offense Order of Protection

The recent issues caused by COVID-19 have surfaced some common questions about family court cases, and what kind of issues require immediate attention. For instance, if a person was removed from their home because of a temporary order of protection, would this require an immediate hearing to ensure that each…

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Getting an Order of Protection in the COVID-19 Crisis

At the time of writing, my office is still open during the COVID-19 pandemic however I am doing business a little differently, as everyone. We have made some changes to the way that we support citizens in New York and Long Island, to adhere with the guidelines implemented for the…

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Does Surveilling Someone Using a PI Violate an Order of Protection During a New York Divorce?

In Anonymous v. Anonymous, a husband filed a motion for summary judgment to dismiss his wife’s petition alleging he’d violated an order of protection. The order of protection had been entered without a finding of fault and directed him to stay at least 1,000 feet away from the wife’s residence and…

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Child Testimony in Order of Protection or Family Offense Cases

Unlike circumstances relating to child custody cases, where the testimony made by the children involved (please seemy last blog for more information), can be done in a private setting (In-Camera), circumstances can differ somewhat in order of protection or family offense cases, where children are brought forth as witnesses to…

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