Get the order
If the judge decides to grant the protection order, the judge will ask the court clerk to write the order for you.
The order will list the exact conditions your partner must follow. A judge can make orders that ban your partner from:
- communicating with you directly or indirectly;
- going to places where you or other family members go, including a school, a business, and a home — even if your partner owns the home; and
- following you or other family members, and
- any other terms that you think are necessary for the safety of you and your children.
The judge could allow some communication, but with set guidelines.
The judge will include in the order that it's a crime to disobey the terms of the order, and that the order can be enforced by the police and RCMP. (This means that if your partner doesn't follow the conditions, they can be arrested and charged with a criminal offence.)
The judge can also:
- tell a police officer to go with you to a house so you can remove your personal belongings;
- tell a police officer to take away weapons from your partner; and
- require your partner to report to court.
The judge can include a date when the order will end. If there's no date on the order, it'll last for one year. The judge might also make an order that could be reviewed, especially if the order is made without notice to the other party. This means the judge will order a date by which the other party is to be served with the documents and a return date for a hearing where the other party can respond.
If you've applied for other orders, the judge can then also make those orders. The orders will be put in a separate document. The protection order can only contain orders about safety.
The protection order is in effect from the moment the judge orders it verbally. Your protection order now has priority over any other existing order such as a parenting order. That means that even if your partner has the right to visit with the children, your partner no longer can if the protection order bans all contact with the children.