Arizona Protective Orders
Two lanes. Not interchangeable. The relationship list is the door.
Arizona's protective orders live outside Title 25 — the Order of Protection in the Criminal Code, the Injunction Against Harassment in Title 12 — and this platform routes to the right one anyway. Nothing on this page limits calling 911, and the platform's Safety Mode routes first, always.
Order of Protection (§ 13-3602)
The door: Domestic violence by someone in a qualifying RELATIONSHIP — spouse/former spouse, residing together, romantic/sexual relationship, relatives, co-parents (the statute's own relationship list controls).
Ex parte issuance exists in the statute's own procedure — a judicial officer can issue before the other side is heard, with service and a contest opportunity after. Violation is an arrestable offense.
§ 13-3602
Injunction Against Harassment (§ 12-1809)
The door: A series of harassing acts by someone OUTSIDE the qualifying-relationship list — a neighbor, stranger, coworker, acquaintance.
The wrong-instrument filing is the classic self-represented error — the relationship list is the door that separates the two lanes.
§ 12-1809
Arizona's protective orders live OUTSIDE the family title — the Order of Protection in the Criminal Code (§ 13-3602) and the Injunction Against Harassment in Title 12 (§ 12-1809) — and they are not interchangeable: the qualifying relationship routes the first, its absence routes the second. None of this limits calling 911, and /safety's resources route first, always.
Authority locked — retrieved from the hash-pinned corpus
In an emergency, call 911. Ex parte issuance under § 13-3602 means a judicial officer can act before the other side is heard — protective-order petitions can be filed through Arizona's courts including the AZPOINT portal, and local victim advocates know your county's exact intake path. Official forms come from the Judicial Branch. Legal information, not legal advice.