If a family member is violent towards you, you can apply for an Emergency Protection Order. Violence can include damaging property, being injured by the other person, being intimidated by them or threatened by them. It can also include stalking forced confinement and sexual abuse. If you are subject to this type of behaviour you… Continue reading Emergency Protection Orders – The Myths and Realities- From a Victims Perspective
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Emergency Protection Orders – The Myths and Realities- From an Alleged Perpetrators Perspective
If a family member believes that you are being violent towards them, they can apply for an Emergency Protection Order. Violence can include damaging property, injuring the other person, intimidating them or threatening them. It can also include stalking forced confinement and sexual abuse. The other side can apply to the court ex parte for… Continue reading Emergency Protection Orders – The Myths and Realities- From an Alleged Perpetrators Perspective
Emergency Protection Orders: What You Need to Know
When violence or threatening behaviour occurs between family members, the victim of family violence can apply for an Emergency Protection Order (also commonly referred to as an EPO) under the Protection Against Family Violence Act R.S.A. 2000 C. P-27. An EPO is a court order that sets protective measures immediately in place against the person… Continue reading Emergency Protection Orders: What You Need to Know
Recent Cases – Lenz v. Sculptoreanu, 2016 ABCA 111
The Alberta Court of Appeal recently released the decision, Lenz v. Sculptoreanu, 2016 ABCA 111. The appellate court per curiam holds that an Emergency Protection Order under the Protection Against Family Violence Act is not available to all persons in an intimate relationship if they do not or have not resided together and their relationship… Continue reading Recent Cases – Lenz v. Sculptoreanu, 2016 ABCA 111