Temporary Protection Order (TPO)

Alexis explains: "Further, the person then goes and files for a civil protection order. And for the way that a civil protection order works is when they file a motion asking for a civil protection order the judge automatically grants a temporary protection order for a 14 day period. Now, after that 14 day period, the other party comes in and says whether or not they wanna fight the protection order. And then generally what happens is, assuming the other person doesn't also want a protection order to enter against them, which no one ever does, that then goes to a permanent protection order hearing."

Alexis explains: "So, the terms that lawyers use are in a criminal case, there's what's called an MPO. It's a mandatory protection order. And in a civil case, there's a TPO, which then turns into a CPO, which is a temporary protection order which is then transferred into a civil protection order or a permanent protection order. Now, these are handled by different judges, they're handled by different courts, and there's different processes for getting this done."