Restraining Orders

A protection from abuse order can:

• order the abuser not to abuse, bother (“molest”), or interfere with the privacy or rights of you or your children;
• order the abuser to be removed (“excluded”) from your shared home and give you possession of the home¹ unless you are not married to the abuser and the abuser owns the home, then this will not be ordered;²
• order the abuser to not cancel utility service to the home for 60 days;
• require the abuser to provide alternate housing for you and your children;
• order the police to remove the abuser from the home and help you return to the home;
• decide the possession of shared personal property including a car and household goods, and order law enforcement to help get that property, if necessary;
• establish temporary custody and visitation rights of your children;
• order temporary child support and, if you are married, spousal support;
• require the abuser to seek batterers’ counseling;
• order either you or the abuser to pay the other’s attorney’s fees; and
• order the abuser to do anything else the judge decides is necessary to protect you and your children.¹ Be sure to ask for anything else you think is important.

¹ Kan. Stat. § 60-3107(a)
² Kan. Stat. § 60-3107(d)