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Emergency Protective Order (EPO)

A protection order normally seen in family law cases, usually in relation to custody issues, such as when one parent is trying to leave the state with the kids.

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an emergency protective order just in regular i say regular but in legal terms that actually is referring to protection orders generally in family law cases so you can get protection orders in criminal cases those are mpos or mandatory protection orders um you can get protection orders by filing them that's a civil protection order or a tpo or ppo and then the epos because we like to have acronyms for everything the emergency protection orders normally are seen in family law cases now we are not a family law firm we are not experts in family law we do have some good resources for that if you're interested in that information but just as a general rule an emergency protective order is normally seen usually in relation to custody issues where if one parent is trying to leave with the kids and the other parent doesn't want them to they can file an emergency protection order saying we need to have this address right now they can't leave the state with my kids
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an emergency protective order just in regular i say regular but in legal terms that actually is referring to protection...

Alexis explains: "an emergency protective order just in regular i say regular but in legal terms that actually is referring to protection orders generally in family law cases so you can get protection orders in criminal cases those are mpos or mandatory protection orders um you can get protection orders by filing them that's a civil protection order or a tpo or ppo and then the epos because we like to have acronyms for everything the emergency protection orders normally are seen in family law cases now we are not a family law firm we are not experts in family law we do have some good resources for that if you're interested in that information but just as a general rule an emergency protective order is normally seen usually in relation to custody issues where if one parent is trying to leave with the kids and the other parent doesn't want them to they can file an emergency protection order saying we need to have this address right now they can't leave the state with my kids"

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