If you are a victim of domestic violence, you have the right to go to court and file a petition requesting a Protection From Abuse (PFA) order which could include the following:

• An order restraining the abuser from further acts of abuse.
• An order telling the abuser to leave your household.
• An order keeping the abuser from entering your residence, school, business or place of employment.
• An order giving you or the other parent temporary custody of or temporary visitation with your child or children.
• An order telling the abuser to pay child support to you and the minor children if the abuser has a legal obligation to do so.
• An order telling the abuser to stop stalking or harassing you or other designated persons.
• An order telling the abuser to give up any weapons used during the act of abuse.
• An order telling the abuser to pay reasonable losses suffered as a result of the abuse.

Domestic Violence Services
Agency: Turning Point of the Lehigh Valley
Hotline #: (610) 437-3369