Brookhaven PA PFA Lawyer: Protect Your Rights Today
As an expert Brookhaven PA PFA Lawyer, Benari Law will help safeguard your rights when someone has a Protection From Abuse Order (PFA) filed against you. A PFA is like a restraining order, which means you can not have any contact at all with the other party, but the limitations are more severe and the penalties for a violation are much worse. Unfortunately, it's quite easy for a party to obtain a PFA granted and, although they're intended to be used by people who are abused or in danger of being abused, they are often used out of spite, revenge, malice, or as a strategy in divorce or custody situations.
How Does a Protection From Abuse Order Affect Me?
If someone has had a Protection from Abuse Order against you, you are not allowed to reach out to them in any way, directly or indirectly, meaning even contact through a third party or through social media is prohibited. You can not see them in person, call, email, or text them for any reason. While this is often important for people who are in danger of being harmed, it has the high potential to be abused because the alleged victim does not have to prove they're in danger or that they have been hurt, and the courts have the tendency to err on the side of caution. This suggests that it's entirely possible for an angry or jealous spouse or former significant other to make a claim and bar an individual from entering his own home or keep them from seeing their children. Firearms may also be permanently confiscated without reimbursement and those accused of causing harm often spend time behind bars if they are unrepresented or represented by a lawyer who isn't intimately familiar with the system.