Is there a fee for dropping a case for filing for a restraining order with issued court?
Asked on Jul 08th, 2014 on Criminal Law - Colorado
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My loved one and I had a child and we have come to a conclusion to decide not to let her parents with a history of violence and poor parenting to not be a part of our child's life. The mother made many attempts harassing my loved to speak with her. She knows she is unwelcome and there’s been many times I came home to the mother of my child in tears hearing her mother should up and made her uncomfortable and with no phone so she could not call the police. We filed a protection order against both her parents, her mom did not have violence in her records but her dad did. So now we have court for hers. Fathers year restraining order. Her mother was the main subject we wanted to order on and her dad has been no trouble since she moved out almost seems happy she's gone to me. But we have decided that we will just continue to make sure she has a phone on hand at all times and call the cops. We don't want to have to go through the court case. Can we cancel the court case without a penalty?
You can cancel the court case, however, it would be mistake to do so. The police will not be able to do anything since there is no protective order. After a few calls, they will just ignore it.
Your question is a bit hard to understand. For your information, if you sought a civil restraining order against the mother or the father and that order has been granted to a permanent restraining order, you must go to court and request that it be terminated. If the order has not been made permanent, it would expire at the end of the temporary phase, you would not need to go back into court. There should not be a filing fee for either option. Best of luck!
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