When you might need all three orders:
You might need all three types of order when you're facing threats on multiple fronts - to your personal safety, your home, and your children. This typically happens during difficult relationship breakdowns where your ex-partner is refusing to accept that the relationship is over and is using various forms of control and intimidation against you and your family.
Personal protection with a non-molestation order:
The non-molestation order protects you from violence, threats, and harassment from your ex-partner. This covers physical abuse, threatening behaviour, constant phone calls or messages, following you, or any other conduct that makes you feel unsafe. Without this protection, you remain vulnerable to ongoing abuse and intimidation.
Securing your home with an occupation order:
An occupation order deals with who can live in the family home. If your ex-partner is refusing to leave despite the relationship ending, or if they've locked you out or made living there impossible, this order can give you the right to stay and exclude them from the property. This is crucial for maintaining stability, especially when you have children who need a secure home.
Protecting your children with prohibited steps orders:
Prohibited steps orders prevent your ex-partner from taking specific actions regarding your children without court permission. This might stop them from removing the children from your care, taking them abroad, changing their school, or preventing you from seeing them. These orders are essential when there's a risk that your ex-partner might use the children as a weapon against you.
Why all three work together:
These orders complement each other to provide complete protection. The non-molestation order keeps you safe, the occupation order secures your housing, and the prohibited steps order protects your children and your relationship with them. Together, they address the most common ways that abusive ex-partners try to maintain control after a relationship ends.
If you believe you or a child is in immediate danger, call 999 first.
You can also contact the NSPCC on 0808 800 5000.
Why use our services?
We offer a unique combination of professional expertise and personal experience to help prepare your all 3 orders application. Our team has extensive experience with family court procedures from both sides - we've worked within the system and been through it ourselves. This gives us invaluable insight into what actually works and what courts want to see.
We understand family court procedures completely, know exactly what evidence strengthens cases, and are fully familiar with all court forms and requirements. We don't just fill in forms - we provide clear explanations of every step, help organise your documents effectively, and support you throughout the entire process.
Our paperwork preparation ensures your court forms are completed properly with no mistakes that could delay your case. We create clear timelines that courts can easily follow and present your evidence in the most effective way possible, using proper legal language that strengthens rather than weakens your position.
What makes us different is our understanding of the system. We've been through this ourselves, so we genuinely know how complex it can be. We understand from experience what works and what doesn't in real cases, combining professional knowledge with real insight into what you're facing.
The result is properly completed forms first time, evidence presented for maximum impact, and clear explanations in plain English. You get ongoing support throughout your case and confidence from working with people who truly understand your situation because we've experienced it ourselves.
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