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You can find out if you are eligible and if Legal Aid has the resources to represent you by calling Legal Aid’s intake line: 1-86. However, due to funding cuts, Legal Aid often does not have the resources to serve every low-income victim who needs representation in their Domestic Violence Protective Order and Civil No-Contact Order cases. One of their priority civil cases is Domestic Violence Protective Orders and Civil No-Contact Orders.

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Legal Aid of North Carolina is a statewide program which provides free legal services in civil matters to low-income persons. If you do not have the financial ability to hire an attorney, Legal Aid of North Carolina might be able to assist you. Stalking is defined as “on more than one occasion, following or otherwise harassing… another person without legal purpose with the intent to” either “place the person in reasonable fear either for the person’s safety or the safety of the person’s immediate family or close personal associates” or “cause that person to suffer substantial emotional distress by placing that person in fear of death, bodily injury, or continued harassment and that in fact causes that person substantial emotional distress.” Unlawful conduct under the statute is defined as “the commission of one or more of the following acts by a person 16 years of age or older upon a person, but does not include acts of self-defense or defense of others.” The acts included are nonconsensual sexual conduct, even if there was only one incident, and stalking. In addition to NOT having a personal relationship with the offender, you must have been the victim of “unlawful conduct.” North Carolina defines “unlawful conduct” as: If you do NOT have one of the above relationships with the offender, and you want a restraining order you may be eligible to file for a Civil No-Contact Order/50C Order. Therefore if you DO have one of the above relationships with the abuser and you want a restraining order you must file a Domestic Violence Protective Order (DVPO/50B).

A casual acquaintance or ordinary fraternization between persons in a business or social context is not a dating relationship. For purposes of this subdivision, a dating relationship is one wherein the parties are romantically involved over time and on a continuous basis during the course of the relationship. Are persons of the opposite sex who are in a dating relationship or have been in a dating relationship.Are current or former household members.For purposes of this subdivision, an aggrieved party may not obtain an order of protection against a child or grandchild under the age of 16

Are related as parents and children, including others acting in loco parentis to a minor child, or as grandparents and grandchildren.

Are persons of opposite sex who live together or have lived together.

In order to file for a “Civil No-Contact Order, you must NOT have a “personal relationship” with the offender and you must have been the victim of “unlawful conduct.” North Carolina law defines only certain categories of relationships as meeting the definition of a “personal relationship.” Below are the current categories:

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