{"id":404,"date":"2016-11-07T14:08:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T14:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barrowsheriff.com\/home\/?page_id=404"},"modified":"2016-11-07T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T14:08:08","slug":"temporary-protective-order-t-p-o-procedures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.barrowsheriff.com\/home\/sheriffs-services\/civil-unit\/temporary-protective-order-t-p-o-procedures\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporary Protective Order (T.P.O.) Procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A T.P.O. is a Temporary Protective Order. It is a court order signed by a judge which prohibits the person who has abused you from harassing, harming, contacting, or mistreating you.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, a T.P.O. may include specific instructions preventing your abuser from coming within a specified distance from your home, work, or child\u2019s school\/daycare. A T.P.O. may also require the abuser to leave the home of the victim, grant temporary custody of children, and make provisions for temporary child support payments.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Georgia Family Violence Act, a person may seek a Temporary Protective Order against an abuser who is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your current or former spouse<\/li>\n<li>The other parent of your child<\/li>\n<li>Someone who currently lives with you, or who has formerly lived with you<\/li>\n<li>Your parent, step-parent, or foster parent<\/li>\n<li>Your child, step-child, or foster child<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To qualify, one or more of the following acts must have been committed against you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Any felony violation<\/li>\n<li>Simple Assault<\/li>\n<li>Simple Battery<\/li>\n<li>Battery<\/li>\n<li>Criminal Damage to Property<\/li>\n<li>Unlawful Restraint<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To obtain a Temporary Protective Order (T.P.O.) if you are a Barrow County resident, you can call Peace Place at (770) 586-0927 or the Barrow County Clerk of Superior Court (770) 307-3035. If you live in another county, please contact your local District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>A T.P.O. <u>must<\/u> be filed in the county where the offender resides. Local law enforcement will serve the T.P.O. to the individual. Once served, the order is effective throughout the State of Georgia for a period of 30 days. A second hearing can extend the order for up to 6 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A T.P.O. is a Temporary Protective Order. It is a court order signed by a judge which prohibits the person who has abused you from harassing, harming, contacting, or mistreating you. Additionally, a T.P.O. may include specific instructions preventing your abuser from coming within a specified distance from your home, work, or child\u2019s school\/daycare. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":126,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-404","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barrowsheriff.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barrowsheriff.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barrowsheriff.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barrowsheriff.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barrowsheriff.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.barrowsheriff.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/404\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barrowsheriff.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barrowsheriff.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}