Carolina Truesdale
Carolina G. Truesdale graduated from Texas Tech University School of Law, Cum Laude, where she discovered her passion for serving families during difficult times.
Texas courts issue restraining orders in family law cases involving domestic violence, stalking, and other family matters. Since 1925, Central Texas families have trusted Dunnam & Dunnam with their most important issues, including restraining orders. We have the skill, experience, and results to get the job done right. If you need a Waco restraining order or protective order, you need to act quickly. To issue a restraining order, a court must find that time is of the essence. So delay could undermine your injunction. Even if it’s not Dunnam & Dunnam, you need to contact a lawyer without any delay.
When you need a court to stop someone from contacting you or being around you, you are asking for an injunction. Injunctions can forbid people from threatening, stalking, harassing, or even contracting a person. The police can enforce injunctions. An injunction allows you to call the police when the person is contacting you or even around you. Types of injunctions include restraining orders and orders of protection.
A judge may grant an order of protection when someone is arrested on family violence charges, or a spouse can file a petition with the court requesting protection. The judge will hold a hearing separate from any criminal charges and issue a protective order if there is a finding that family violence has occurred and is likely to happen in the future.
The protective order may prohibit the respondent from committing domestic assault, making any threats – directly or indirectly through other people – or going near the other person’s home and workplace. The judge also may require the respondent to attend a battering prevention program and require the person to give up possession of guns.
A family law restraining order is valid for as long as the judge specifies, up to two years. If you are sent to jail or prison, the order can last up to one year after you get out. Even if you and your spouse are planning to reconcile, and invites you, the police can arrest you if the restraining order is still active.
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Board certified lawyers must have significant experience, before even taking a specialized test to show their expertise in the practice area. Only 900 of the more than 100,000 Texas attorneys are board certified in Family Law. Three of those attorneys are at Dunnam & Dunnam. These lawyers engage and have been certified as specialists by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in the practice of Family Law.
Carolina G. Truesdale graduated from Texas Tech University School of Law, Cum Laude, where she discovered her passion for serving families during difficult times.
Mason Dunnam won his first jury trial the day after becoming licensed to practice law. He became a lawyer to fight for the little guy.
Eleeza Johnson has been a member of Dunnam & Dunnam since 2015 and is currently designated as Of Counsel.
Gerald Ray Villarrial has an important goal – to be remembered as someone who cared about people and changed lives through his skill as an attorney.
Jim Dunnam is a Board Certified Specialist in both Civil Trial Law and Family Law. Jim was born and has spent his entire life in Waco.
Merrilee Harmon is a Family Law specialist, Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1985.
Vance Dunnam has 60 years of experience as a lawyer in Waco, Texas, handling all types of cases in both the office and the courtroom.
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