Petitioner

Alexis explains: "basically a mini trial so the person the petitioner or the person who's requesting a protection order to enter will have to tell the magistrate all the reasons why they want to have a protection order issued they have to make sure that anything that they are trying to bring into court is actually already listed in the protection order so this is where we see people doing protection orders wrong quite a bit you have to contain everything you want within the four corners of the protection order hypothetically like you can add extra pages if you need to but everything that you're going to address in court has to be listed in that protection order if you go outside of what you wrote the the court isn't going to let you go into that"

Alexis explains: "way that you can have that lifted is the person who initially requested the protection order they can come back and say okay i it's been a couple of years i'm no longer afraid i'm willing to lift this i don't want it so they can ask for it to be lifted okay or the person who had the protection order issued against them can come back and say hey nothing has happened there haven't been any violations i don't want this anymore can we please get it lifted now for that to happen it has to be at least a two-year period so you can't ask for it to be lifted until two years have passed"