Restraining orders have been too abused to be credible
by
truerights
01/27/2008, 11:03 PM #
Case in point in Broward. One woman actually has a RO on former boyfriend who still shows up at her door. She pushes him out and he beats her up and the cops threaten to arrest her.
Same court, the Hispanic judge, likes to flirt with a Hispanic woman who has a borderline personality disorder. She files a RO for domestic abuse on her boyfriend not because he has threatened her or indicated he was violent but because they have a child. That's all. This woman who thinks spirits are peeking in her back window got the RO and then the judge showed up at the Signature Grand a week later to hit on her. Her boyfriend who had a clean record now isn't able to get a job as a teacher or in law enforcement and has that on his record for life in spite of the fact that the woman dropped the pettition.
This stuff happens every day and it doesn't protect women one bit because the women that really need them are not the ones that go to court.
There is also a backlash against women that do file them. Now that prenuptual agreements and background checks are becoming more and more common among wealthy men, teachers and law enforcement. An attorney who is looking after their clients interests advise against any relationship, busness or personal with any woman who has filed ROs in the past on the assumption that it probably isn't ligit.
The whole system needs to be scrapped or overhauled. It's a joke right now. A woman who does file a false claim should be prosecuted and ordered to attend anger managment courses, pay a fine and possilby face a little jail time.
If the injunction is thrown out then it should automatically be espunged.
