A Texas protective order can immediately bar an abusive family or household member from your home, your workplace, and contact with you and your children. Richmond applications are filed at the Fort Bend County Justice Center, where family violence matters are heard.
Temporary ex parte orders can issue the same day without the respondent present, typically lasting up to 20 days while a full hearing is set. Final protective orders follow a contested hearing and generally last up to two years.
A temporary ex parte order can be granted the same day the application is filed, without notice to the other party, when the sworn application shows a clear and present danger.
A protective order can bar possession of firearms and prohibit all contact — direct or indirect — with real criminal consequences for violation.
A protective order finding of family violence carries heavy weight in custody proceedings, and can restrict the found party’s possession to supervised conditions.
Whether you are seeking protection or have been named as a respondent, a protective order proceeding almost always intersects a pending or future divorce or custody case in Fort Bend practice.
For applicants, the application is evidence work — dated incidents, photographs, medical records, messages, police reports — assembled fast. For respondents, default is not a strategy; a finding follows you through every family court proceeding after it.
We build applications that give judges what the statute requires — specific acts, specific dates, credible corroboration — and we defend respondents by holding applications to that same standard.
These cases move in days, not months. If you are in immediate danger, call 911; otherwise, schedule a consultation as soon as possible.
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