Respondent

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: "caitlin then as the respondent to the protection order has to show up in court because if she has been served and she doesn't show up i automatically win i get that protection order so this is something where people will call us and say well someone just served me with a protection order i don't want to go you have to go otherwise you're basically admitting yes yes you can get a production order against me"