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Personal Protection Orders
A personal protection order, or PPO, is an order issued by the Circuit Court. It may protect you from being hit, threatened, harassed, or stalked by another person. The PPO may also stop someone from coming into your home or bothering you at work. It can stop them from buying a firearm or finding your address through school records. It can also stop them from taking your minor children unless required by the court.
The type of PPO a person applies for is determined by how you know the other person and not the behavior. Please review the following to determine which PPO is appropriate. A Domestic relationship PPO is appropriate (even if the offensive behavior amounts to stalking) if the person you are filing against falls into any one of the following categories: - The petitioner’s spouse or former spouse.
- A person with whom the petitioner has had a child in common.
- A person who resides or who has resided in the same household as the petitioner.
- A person with whom the petitioner has or has had a “dating relationship.”
A Non-domestic stalking PPO is available to enjoin a person, regardless of that person’s relationship with you, from engaging in stalking. A Non-domestic sexual assault PPO is available to victims of sexual assault, victims who have received obscene material or victims placed in reasonable apprehension of sexual assault by a person. A Domestic or Non-Domestic Minor PPO may not be issued if you and the person you want restrained have a parent/child relationship and you are unemancipated minor. If there is no such parent/child relationship, however, a person under age 18 may be a party in a PPO action. A child under the age of 10 may not be a respondent in a PPO action. If the petitioner is a minor or a legally incapacitated individual, he or she must proceed through a next friend who must be present with the petitioner for the process.
 Procedural Instructions for Personal Protection Orders (file size 33k)
Instructions for Completing Page 1 "Petition for Personal Protection Order" (file size 25k)
Address:
Personal Protection Order Office
Oakland County Courthouse
1200 North Telegraph Road
Pontiac, Michigan 48341
Location:
The PPO office is located in the Juvenile Intake area on the Ground Floor, East Wing of the courthouse.
Contact: Juvenile Intake
Phone: 248-975-9511
Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays (see Holiday Schedule) PPO information is available until 5:00 p.m. at Juvenile Intake.
Haven is available in the courthouse to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Their number is 248-858-0203.
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