Who makes an Application for a Protection Order

Applying for a Domestic Violence Protection Order

In Queensland an Application for a Domestic Violence Protection Order can be made by:

The Police (usually after they have attended an incident); or

By the “Aggrieved” (the person who needs the Protection of a Domestic Violence Protection Order).

For the Act to apply, a specific type of relationship must exist between the persons.
Those type of relationships will include people who:
 
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Either are, or have been in the past, married or in a de facto relationship;
Are the biological parents of a child of the relationship (even if it was a one night stand);
Either are, or have been in the past, engaged or...

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