North Carolina Learn
50B, 50C, and 50D: three protective orders, not one
North Carolina has three distinct protective-order lanes: Chapter 50B domestic-violence protective orders (requiring a personal relationship, with ex parte emergency relief), Chapter 50C civil no-contact orders (stalking or nonconsensual conduct outside that relationship), and Chapter 50D permanent no-contact orders after a sex-offense conviction.
The honesty note
Filing in the wrong chapter costs time when time matters most — the personal-relationship element is the door that separates 50B from 50C. None of this limits calling 911.
Authority locked — retrieved from the hash-pinned corpus
Do it with the tools
Legal information, not legal advice. Statements about county or district practice defer to your county's local rules and the clerk — where this platform has no verified county data, it says so instead of guessing.