Domestic violence
Protection orders are their own jurisdiction.
BJH Law acts for aggrieved people and respondents in Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act proceedings. The office is in Noosa. These files often sit beside a criminal charge or a parenting case.
A police protection notice, a temporary order, and a final hearing are not the same event. Consent without admissions is not a shortcut for a family-law affidavit. If you are the respondent, what you sign in the Magistrates Court can still be read in another court.
Aggrieved and respondent
We act on both sides of a protection-order file. The work is the application, variations, named persons, and contested hearings. It is also the discipline of not treating the DVO as a family-law substitute.
Overlap
If there is a parenting case or a criminal charge on the same facts, go to when matters overlap before you file anything long. For Sunshine Coast listings, start with Noosa or Maroochydore on the courts page.