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no contact order

Asked 24 March 2010 · 1 answer

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I really needed some information about some things that are going on. I recently took a neighbor to court for assault and battery charges. He hit me when involved with an altercation with his wife. Needless to say, I went to help her and got hit. Which is something I've learned never to do. I will never help another person in this kind of situation as long as I live! Anyway, I digress, the neighbor was told to plead no contest or he would lose his kids because of the altercation. Anyway, My kids attend school with his kids and they are in the same classrooms. There is a no contact order in place for myself and my household. He comes to the school and doesn't check-in. He goes into the classrooms around my children and even followed my daughter around an exhibit one day giving my daughter nasty looks. My kids are terrified of this man because they witnessed the altercation between him and his wife. He told me in court, and this is how ignorant this man is, that I was gonna get what was coming to me. He did this in front of oh say 6 or 7 cops. He has tons of charges on him ranging from simple traffic tickets to A&B (another case) to indecent exposure. He gets out of all of this because nobody will face him in court. I have been the only one to stand against him. He pled no contest in my case and got 12 months supervised probation. I guess my questions are can I keep him out of the school and away from my children with this no contact order and if I am in a store, why am I the one that has to turn and walk back out the door, seeing as how I didn't do anything and I am the victim in this. I was told this by an attorney! I live in the state of Virginia. PLEASE HELP! Thank you in advance!

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Visitor answer 26 October 2010

This is a late reply; I hope things have gotten better

by now.

If the no contact extends to your household, it sounds

like he's in violation of it, depending on the

provisions of the no contact order (what kind of

physical distance must he keep, etc.)

I'm not a lawyer, but I don't see any legal reason he

would be allowed in the school, near your children,

while in violation of the no contact. Just because his

kids are in the same school, it doesn't mean he has a

legal right to be there.

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