A final protection order can last for years and affect where you live, how you see your children and whether you can hold certain licences. Talk to Joseph Rahim about the conditions before they are made.
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A final protection order usually lasts five years. The magistrate can set a shorter period, giving reasons, and an order can be extended.
Read the end date on the order itself. A variation can move it, and an application to extend can be made while the order is running.
There is no hearing when an order expires, and the conditions stop binding you.
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Every matter is different, but most follow this order.
An application is filed, or police issue a police protection notice. Its conditions bind the respondent from the moment of service.
At the Magistrates Court the respondent can consent, consent without admissions, ask for an adjournment to get advice, or contest. A temporary order can be made in the meantime.
Evidence is usually filed beforehand. The magistrate decides whether the parties are in a relationship the Act covers, whether domestic violence has occurred, and whether an order is necessary or desirable.
A final protection order usually lasts five years, unless the court sets a different period.
Every order requires you to be of good behaviour towards the aggrieved and any named person, not to commit domestic violence, and not to get someone else to do anything you cannot do.
A breach does not have to be violent. Contact, or returning to a home under an ouster condition, is enough.
Conditions are much easier to shape before the order is made than to change afterwards.
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Usually five years, unless the court sets a shorter period or the order is extended.
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0447 028 080This page is general information about Queensland law. It is not legal advice. Every matter turns on its own facts, so speak with us about yours.
