Restraining Orders

You may be eligible for a domestic violence protection order if a family or household member commits an act of domestic violence or if you can prove that domestic violence that is about to happen (“imminent domestic violence”). For the purpose of getting a domestic violence protection order, “family or household member” means a:

• spouse or former spouse;
• parent;
• child;
• other family member;
• person related by blood or marriage;
• a person you are dating;
• a person who is living with you or has lived with you before; or
• someone with whom you have a child in common, even if you were never married or lived together.¹

Note: The law says that you can file against “any other person” if the judge determines that the relationship between you and the abusive person is “sufficient to warrant the issuance of a domestic violence protection order.”²

¹ N.D. Cent. Code § 14-07.1-01(4)
² N.D. Cent. Code § 14-07.1-02(1)