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.

As has been well-documented by commentators, the advent of electronic discovery has resulted in a number of challenges with respect to conducting and managing document discovery. Due to the sometimes ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird has restarted a notification system for victims of domestic violence.

Recently introduced legislation seeks to heed the call from domestic violence groups to change Michigan law to ensure that victims don't have to pay anything to have personal protection orders (PPO) ...