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Six protection orders, one chapter — and a firearms surrender rule
Washington consolidated its civil protection orders into one chapter with SIX types: domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, vulnerable adult, extreme risk, and antiharassment. Ex parte temporary orders can issue the same day; surrender orders require immediate surrender of all firearms, dangerous weapons, and any concealed pistol license. Protection is civil and does not wait for — or depend on — any family case.
The honesty note
Which courthouse and which filing channel vary by county and order type — where this platform lacks verified county routing it says UNRESOLVED and shows the official alternatives; the PO-series pattern forms are the petition path. If there is danger now: 911.
Authority locked — retrieved from the hash-pinned corpus
Do it with the tools
Legal information, not legal advice. Statements about county practice defer to your superior court's clerk-maintained local rules (GR 7(d)) and the courthouse facilitator — where this platform has no verified county data, it says so instead of guessing.