• English
  • עברית
Home » » Violence

My ex-girlfriend is trying to stop me having contact with my daughter and has asked the court for a protection order against me, lying and claiming that I have been violent towards my daughter several times during the past year.What can I say against her claims at the hearing that has been set?

You can point out, as Jerusalem  District Court stressed in 2004,that the 1991 Prevention of Violence within the Family Act requires a close connection between the alleged violent act and the request for an order to keep the alleged violent person away.If the alleged violent act takes place shortly before the application for a protection order is filed, then the court can deal with the case.If, however,a "substantial amount of time" has elapsed since the alleged violent event, as appears to be so from your description, the court will lack jurisdiction to deal with it under the act.If this were otherwise, then "anybody could keep an intimidating event in the past inside him, and use it against his enemy much later on", Judge Drori said in Leave of Civil Appeal 179/04.