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A Personal Protection Order (PPO) is a court order to stop threats, violence or harassment against you. You can get a PPO to protect you from someone age 10 or older who is threatening, hurting, stalking, or harassing you.
To prepare your motion, use the Do-It-Yourself Motion to Modify, Extend, or Terminate a Personal Protection Order (PPO) tool. If the abuser violates your PPO, you can call the police and report the violation.
You can use our Do-It-Yourself Motion to Modify, Extend, or Terminate a Personal Protection Order (PPO) tool to do this. The police are usually the first to enforce a PPO. They may arrest someone who appears to have violated a PPO.
If there is a Personal Protection Order (PPO) against you, it is important to obey it. If you do not obey the PPO, you could face jail time, a fine, or both. The judge can also consider a PPO violation in a divorce or child custody case.
This toolkit explains what you can do when you have a personal protection order against your abuser and the abuser has violated the order.
Violation of this order subjects respondent to immediate arrest and to the civil and criminal contempt powers of the court. If found guilty, respondent shall be imprisoned for not more than 93 days and may be fined not more than $500.00.
A personal protection order (PPO) is an injunctive order the family division of the circuit court issues to restrain or enjoin “activity and individuals listed in [MCL 600.2950](1) ” or “conduct prohibited under [MCL 600.2950a](1) or [MCL 600.2950a](3).”
