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Keeping yourself and your family safe
If you or a loved one is facing harm, family protection orders can provide critical safety measures. These orders are designed to protect against emotional, psychological, or physical abuse. Whether you need a protection order for yourself, your children, or another family member, we are here to help.
The court can issue family protection injunction orders such as:
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Non-Molestation Orders to restrict harmful behaviour or contact.
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Occupation Orders to determine who can live in or return to the family home.
These legal measures may include a power of arrest, allowing police to act immediately if the order is violated.
If you’re experiencing domestic violence or abuse, don’t suffer in silence. Identifying the warning signs and seeking help can be vital steps in ensuring your safety. Although every case is unique, common factors can indicate an abusive relationship. Reach out to Beckett Solicitors for support and guidance in obtaining the right family protection order for your needs.
Spotting the signs of abuse
The Domestic Abuse Act 2021 states that behaviour is abusive if it consists of any of the following
Physical or sexual abuse
Violent or threatening behaviour
Controlling or coercive behaviour
Economic abuse
Psychological, emotional or other abuse
This can be a single incident or a course of conduct.
Disrespect
Putting you down in front of other people, taking money from you without asking, refusing to help with childcare or housework
Isolation and control
Monitoring your phone calls, telling you where you can go, preventing you from seeing friends and relatives, telling you what to wear, withholding information from you, being jealous.
Sexual violence
Constant pressure and harassment into having sex when you don’t want to, forcing you to have sex with other people, any degrading treatment related to your sexuality.
Criticism, humiliation and verbal abuse
Shouting, mocking, name calling, verbal threatening.
Bullying and controlling
Sulking, withholding money, disconnecting the phone, taking away or destroying your mobile, taking the car away, taking the children away, threatening to report you to the police or social services, lying to your friends and family about you, telling you that you have no choice in any decisions.
Harassment
Following you, checking up on you, not allowing you any privacy (for example, opening your mail or going through your mobile).
Threats and intimidation
Using physical size and power to threaten, intimidate or frighten you, breaking things, punching walls, threatening to kill or harm you and the children, threatening to kill or harm family pets, threats of suicide.
Physical violence
Punching, slapping, hitting, biting, pinching, kicking, hair pulling, shoving, burning, pinning you down, holding you by the neck, restraining you.
Denial
Denying the abuse, saying you wind him/her up, crying and begging for forgiveness, saying it will never happen again.
Don’t put up with feeling unsafe in your relationship. Reach out to our compassionate team.
Freephone 0800 038 5828