Articles detailing abuse of Restraining Orders in Divorce

Restraining order requests more than double in 5 years (Newspaper article)

Amazing NJ Bar Journal Article

Here's a quote:

"If I had one message to give you today, it is that your job is not to weigh the parties' rights as you might be inclined to do as having been private practitioners," Russell told the judges. "Your job is not to become concerned about all the constitutional rights of the man that you're violating as you grant a restraining order. Throw him out on the street, give him the clothes on his back and tell him, 'See ya' around.' Your job is to be a wall that is thrown between the two people that are fighting each other and that's how you can rationalize it. Because that's what the statute says. The statute says that there is something called domestic violence and it says that it is an evil in our society."

Obtaining and Defending Against an Order of Protection (2005 article from NJ Law Journal)

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Orders of protection are designed to prevent domestic violence, but they can also become part of the gamesmanship of divorce. This article discusses orders of protection and how to represent plaintiffs and defendants in OP proceedings.

Can a parent be subject to an order of protection when the parent breaks a child's pool stick because the 12-year-old child played pool with his friends rather than doing his homework as instructed? Yes, according to Peck v Otten.1

After the breakup of a dating relationship, do leaving notes for, calling, and sending roses to the former girlfriend together constitute grounds for an order of protection? Yes, according to Shields v Fry.2

Men are also victims of Domestic violence (Newspaper article)

Domestic violations (Article by Cathy Young in Reason Magazine)

Restraining orders: Shield or strategic weapon? (Newspaper article)