Civil protection orders — and the criminal order that arrives on its own

Colorado's civil lane runs petition-driven: a sworn showing of imminent danger can produce a TEMPORARY protection order the same day, ex parte, with a return hearing where it becomes permanent, extends, or ends. County and district courts both take these. A different instrument arrives automatically with criminal charges — the MANDATORY criminal protection order — and confusing the two costs pro se filers real time. Municipal courts touch the DV layer only as a bounded enforcement crossover.