A guide to handling enforcement existing court orders, requesting to move, or changing an existing court order during an emergency.

Tipsheet highlighting practical strategies for community advocates to help survivors successfully complete probation or parole supervision.

A criminal conviction can shift power dynamics, enabling abusers to use a survivor's record to ensure negative consequences.

Correctly applied Battered Woman Syndrome evidence counters misconceptions, leading to fairer outcomes for criminalized survivors of domestic violence.

Revised in 2025, this matrix contains information on emergency, temporary, ex parte and final protection order durations for states and other jurisdictions.

This matrix lists jurisdictions and their relevant statutes that govern service of protection orders, including foreign or out of state protection orders.

Revised in 2025, this matrix summarizes the requirements for registering an out-of-jurisdiction protection order in a state registry.

This matrix provides the statutory provisions for modifications and extension of protection orders.

This matrix summarizes the state statutes defining the terms' abuse' or 'violence' within a civil protection order.

This matrix summarizes states that have issued extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs) or have enacted preemptive laws related to ERPOs.