Important note: If you feel you are in immediate danger, stop reading and call 911 to get help right away.

Relationships can be tough, and if you feel the need to get a restraining order against someone to ensure your safety and security, it helps to know the proper procedure. California law allows for anyone to request a restraining order, and many people have found restraining orders incredibly helpful protective measures.

If you’re being threatened or have endured violence, please schedule a complimentary consultation with Torrence L. Howell today by calling (909) 920-0908, emailing info@torrencelhowelllaw.com, or sending an online message at the right hand side of this page. Don’t wait—get the help you need today.

The following kinds of behavior are grounds for acquiring restraining orders:

• Stalking, whether in-person or online
• Making threats of violence made against you, your children, other family members, or pets
• Sending harassing phone, text, email, or social media messages
• Physical abuse (such as punching, kicking, hair pulling, burning, chocking, and many others)
• Mental abuse (such as constant criticism, forced isolation, fear by intimidation, mind games, name calling, guilt trips, threats to reveal intensely personal information to others, and more)
• Sexual abuse (including as marital rape, forcing sex after physical violence, treating victim in a sexually demeaning manner, forging the victim to pose for sexually explicit photos or video, and more)
• Child abuse (such as deliberate physical harm, sexual abuse, verbal or emotional abuse, harm to a pet in front of a child, a child physically intervening in the abuse of a parent, and threats against a child, including violence and kidnapping)
• Spousal abuse (including physical violence of any kind, marital rape, withholding reproductive control, withholding money or employment to make the spouse financially dependent, emotional and psychological abuse, threatening, and more)

Basically, if the spouse, partner, or other family member behaves in any way that makes you feel afraid and powerless, it’s time to call Law Offices of Torrence L. Howell for immediate help.

Don’t just sit back and put up with it—get the help you need today. The first action attorney Howell will take is securing an emergency protective order, which gives you immediate protection from the abuser for 5 days following an initial hearing. The abuser does not to be present for the hearing to occur successfully.

Other restraining order options

Attorney Howell can also help you secure a 21-day temporary restraining order from California’s family law court or a permanent restraining order which can be effective for up to 5 years.

Financial concerns

If you’re worried about losing the financial support from your spouse, attorney Howell can also assist you with acquiring a temporary alimony order that will allow your basic needs to be taken care of while you live apart from your abuser and seek out legal measures to punish abuse and prevent it from happening again in the future.

The bottom line is, you don’t have to put up with abusive behavior in any form. Get the help you need now by scheduling a confidential, free consultation with Law Offices of Torrence L. Howell today by calling (909) 920-0908, emailing info@torrencelhowelllaw.com, or sending an online message at the right side of this page.