Restraining Orders

A protection from abuse order can:

• order the abuser to:
  • not abuse, bother (“molest”), or interfere with the privacy or rights of you or your children, including by using a GPS or other electronic tracking system to know your location or movement;¹
  • leave your shared home and give you possession of the home. Note: If you are not married to the abuser and the abuser owns the home, then this will not be ordered;²
  • not cancel utility service to the home for 60 days;
  • provide alternate housing for you and your children; and
  • seek batterers’ counseling;
• direct the police to remove (“evict”) the abuser from the home and help you return to it;
• 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 applicable, spousal support;
• order either you or the abuser to pay the other’s attorney’s fees; and
• anything else the judge decides is necessary to protect you and your children.¹ 

You can ask the judge to include anything you think is important in the order.

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