Restraining Orders

Under Illinois law, you can for a civil no contact order if:

1. you are the victim of one or more incidents of non-consensual sexual conduct or non-consensual sexual penetration;
2. you are filing on behalf of a minor child who is a victim;
3. you are filing on behalf of an adult who is a victim but cannot file on his/her own because of age, disability, health, or inaccessibility; 
4. you are filing on behalf of any family or household member who is a victim but only after receiving consent from the victim to do so; 
5. you are a service member in the Illinois National Guard or any reserve military component serving within Illinois who is a victim and you also have a military protective order; or
6. you are part of the Staff Judge Advocate of the Illinois National Guard or any reserve military component serving within the Illinois, and you are filing on behalf of a victim who has also received a military protective order but only only after receiving consent from the victim to do so.¹

Note: For the situations described in numbers 4 and 6, above, the petition must include a statement that the victim has consented to the petitioner filing the petition.¹

Your civil no contact order can also protect your family or household members and any rape crisis center advocate who is assisting you.²

¹ 740 ILCS 22/201(b)
² 740 ILCS 22/201(a)