Consequences of Having a Domestic Violence Injunction Filed Against You
March 2016
Orlando domestic violence defense attorney Jack Kaleita briefly talks about how having a domestic violence injunction filed against you in Florida can affect your life, and about the consequences of violating your injunction:
Consequences of Having a Domestic Violence Injunction Filed Against You
"There’s a lot of things that can adversely affect your life about an injunction. First of all, the most obvious thing, is you can’t have contact anymore, for the period of the injunction, with the person who is being protected by the injunction. In other words, the person who is the victim, or the petitioner in the injunction. The second thing that can happen, is that if there’s children involved, the child support, the visitation, the contact at all with the children, all of those things can be addressed and affected by the entry of an injunction. The third thing that can be a consequence of having a domestic violence injunction entered against you, is that if you’re stopped by the police, or anyone runs a background check, the fact that you have an injunction is going to pop up, and it can affect the way that you’re treated by those people. Another consequence of having an injunction against you is that you’re not allowed to have any firearms during the time that the injunction is active. So if you have any firearms you’re going to have to turn them over, normally to the sheriff’s office and you won’t be able to have them anymore until the injunction is dissolved. Another consequence can be that if you are arrested for violating that injunction, then the offense of violation of injunction is criminal. So you can be prosecuted separately in criminal court for violating that injunction. Injunctions are very serious, the time period can vary depending on the judge, depending on the jurisdiction. Sometimes, injunctions can be even as short as 60 days. Most commonly, they’re 6 months, they’re a year or 2 years. But an injunction can be permanent, in other words, it stays in effect forever, until and unless, it’s dissolved by the court."
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