{"id":1468,"date":"2012-10-09T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scoresbyfamilylaw.com\/blog\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2019-11-23T22:26:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T05:26:38","slug":"httpsscoresbyfamilylaw-comblogorders-of-protection-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scoresbyfamilylaw.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/09\/httpsscoresbyfamilylaw-comblogorders-of-protection-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Orders of Protection for Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scoresbyfamilylaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/thumbnailCA25ZY2Q1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1480\" title=\"thumbnailCA25ZY2Q\" src=\"http:\/\/scoresbyfamilylaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/thumbnailCA25ZY2Q1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Orders of protection are\u00a0typically used to restrict contact between two <strong>adults<\/strong> who satisfy the relationship requirements of A.R.S. Section 13-3601(A).\u00a0\u00a0 <em>See also<\/em> Rule 6(C)(3)(b),\u00a0 Arizona Rules of Protective Order Procedure (&#8220;ARPOP&#8221;).\u00a0\u00a0 When a child is also at risk, however, \u00a0the plaintiff may\u00a0ask the court to include the child as a protected person on the order of protection.\u00a0 A.R.S. Section 13-3602(G)(3), \u00a0ARPOP Rules 1(F), 4(B) and\u00a06(C)(5).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Occasionally, a child may be the <em>only<\/em> victim of domestic violence.\u00a0 In such an instance, the child is not limited to being placed as a protected person on <em>another person&#8217;s<\/em> order of protection (typically an order\u00a0obtained by one of the child&#8217;s parents).\u00a0 The law also allows a <strong>child <\/strong>to obtain <em>his own<\/em> order of protection against a parent or other defendant who meets the relationship requirements.\u00a0 A.R.S. Section 13-3602(A).\u00a0 When a minor child is in need of\u00a0his own\u00a0order of protection, however, his parent or guardian files for the order of protection as the plaintiff on behalf of the child.\u00a0 <em>Id.\u00a0<\/em> A minor child may not himself file for an order of protection as the plaintiff.\u00a0 <em>Id.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Orders of protection on behalf of children or which include children as protected persons are not to be used as substitutes for child custody orders.\u00a0 ARPOP, Rule 4(B).\u00a0 When a family court case is pending, many court commissioners (the judicial officers who issue orders of protection in Maricopa County) are reluctant to include children on orders of protection at all.\u00a0 The family court judge charged with deciding child custody and parenting time is in the best position to decide how, if at all, contact between a parent and a child should be restricted.\u00a0 If restrictions\u00a0on parent\/child contact,\u00a0such as supervision,\u00a0are deemed appropriate by the family court judge, she may include those restrictions in her child custody\/parenting time orders.\u00a0 An order of protection is not needed to create such restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately,\u00a0parents\u00a0in child custody cases too often abuse the order of protection process in an effort to keep the other parent away from the children.\u00a0 Parents often exaggerate or even fabricate allegations in order to have children included as protected persons on their orders of protection.\u00a0 Although an order of protection is not technically a custody order\u00a0(it doesn&#8217;t specifically <em>award<\/em> physical custody to the plaintiff), an order of protection which orders that a defendant have &#8220;no contact&#8221; with his child as a protected person is certainly a <em>de facto<\/em> custody order.\u00a0 If a court order denies one parent from contact with children and allows the other parent contact, the court has effectively decided at least temporary custody.<\/p>\n<p>In my experience, when a court commissioner issues an <em>ex parte<\/em>\u00a0order of protection on behalf of a child or which includes a child as a protected person, the child is usually dropped from the order once a hearing is held at which the defendant is able to appear and defend himself.\u00a0 Adding the child as a protected person to the initial order of protection\u00a0typically only serves to increase the animosity between the parties and to make settlement less likely.\u00a0 Unless a child is in genuine danger, it is generally best to leave the child off the order of protection and let the family court judge deal with the child custody and parenting time issues following a hearing at which both parties have a reasonable opportunity to present their evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2012 by Scoresby Family Law \u2013 J. 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