If you are 18 or older, you can ask for protection for:
Yourself from an intimate partner or family member with a “Petition for Relief from Domestic Abuse.”
Your child who is under age 18 whose intimate partner is harming the child with a “Petition for Relief from Domestic Abuse on Behalf of a Minor.”
A child who is legally in your care, sometimes called a “ward” or “protected person,” who is harmed by the person’s intimate partner or family member with a “Petition for Relief from Domestic Abuse on Behalf of a Ward.”
Guide for information on how to file at https://www.iowacourts.gov/static/static/media/cms/E0002_569890E51EF7C.pdf
If you cannot file electronically, you may go to your county courthouse for help with filing your Petition.
There are three Petitions, and you must use the correct Petition for you or the person you are helping:
If you need protection for yourself, use the “Petition for Relief from Domestic Abuse.”
If you want to protect your minor child, use the “Petition for Relief from Domestic Abuse on Behalf of a Minor.”
If you want to protect your ward or a person legally in your care, use the “Petition for Relief from Domestic Abuse on Behalf of a Ward.” ... To ask the court for help, prepare a “Petition” and file it with the Iowa District Court.
To prepare a Petition, there are free court forms on the Iowa Judicial Branch website at (https://www.iowacourts.gov/for-the-public/court-forms/). The free court forms are also available from the clerk of court office at the courthouse in the county where you live.
You may file your Petition electronically from your personal computer. If you file electronically, see the Iowa Judicial Branch eFile User
from the district court’s issuance of a domestic
abuse protection order. REVERSED AND REMANDED.
David A. Morse of Rosenberg, Stowers & Morse, Des Moines, for
appellant.
Joni Pierson, Waukee, pro se.
Considered by Vogel, P.J., and Miller and Eisenhauer, JJ.
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EISENHAUER, J.
Matthew Mullenix appeals from the district court’s issuance of a domestic
abuse protection order. He contends there was insufficient evidence to show he
committed domestic abuse. He also contends the court improperly acted as an
advocate for a pro se litigant. Our review is de novo. Knight v. Knight, 525
N.W.2d 841, 843 (Iowa 1994).
A petition for relief from ... abuse was filed by Joni Pierson under
Iowa Code section 236(2)(d) (2005). Domestic abuse occurs when an assault
takes place between persons who have been in an intimate relationship and
have had contact within the past year of the assault. Iowa Code § 236.2(2)(d).
There is no question the relationship existed within the year preceding the
allegations. A person commits assault when, without justification, they do any of
the following:
1. Any act which is intended to cause pain or injury to, or which is
intended to result in physical contact which will be insulting or
offensive to another, coupled with the apparent ability to execute
the act.
2. Any act which is intended to place another in fear of immediate
physical contact which will be painful, injurious, insulting, or
offensive, coupled with the apparent ability to execute the act.
3. Intentionally points any firearm toward another, or displays in a
threatening manner any dangerous weapon toward another.
Iowa Code § 708.1.
We conclude there is insufficient evidence to show Mullenix assaulted
Pierson. The only acts alleged by Pierson in support of her petition for relief from ... abuse are a series of phone calls in which Mullenix stated, “You’re
going to pay for this” or “You’re going to get it.” A mere threat, without more, is
not necessarily an assault by placing another in fear. State v. Law, 306 N.W.2d
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756, 759 (Iowa 1981), overruled on other grounds by State v. Wales, 325 N.W.2d
87 (Iowa 1982). “It is well settled that mere words, even at short range, do not
constitute an assault. The fact that the words were spoken over the telephone
line would of itself quite negative the theory of assault.” Kramer v. Ricksmeier,
159 Iowa 48, 51, 139 N.W. 1091, 1091 (Iowa 1913) (citations omitted). We
reverse the protection order and remand for dismissal of the petition for relief
from
appeals the district court’s orders dismissing her petition
for relief from domestic abuse and granting Bassam Kadura’s ... cross-petition for
relief from domestic abuse. AFFIRMED IN PART AND REVERSED IN PART.
Melody J. Butz of Butz ... appeals the district court’s order denying her
petition for relief from domestic abuse and granting the petition filed
dismissing her petition for relief
from domestic abuse. AFFIRMED.
Michelle Mackel-Wiederanders, Iowa Legal Aid ...
BEEGHLY, S.J.
I. Background Facts
On August 29, 2008, Susan Osho filed a pro se petition for relief from
domestic abuse under ... from the Iowa District Court for Polk County, Martha L. Mertz,
Judge.
Plaintiff appeals the district court order
Robert Tornblom appeals from the district court’s grant of
Catherine Tornblom’s petition for relief from domestic abuse. AFFIRMED ... .
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HUITINK, P.J.
James Robert Tornblom appeals from the district court’s grant of
Catherine Tornblom’s petition for relief from domestic abuse. We ... form petition for relief from
domestic abuse pursuant to chapter 236 of the Iowa Code (2007). In this petition
she
.
Dawn Wegman, on behalf of her child, appeals from the district court’s
dismissal of her petition for relief from domestic abuse filed ... district
court’s dismissal of her petition for relief from domestic abuse. She argues
dismissal was improper. We ... affirm finding Iowa Code chapter 236 does not
apply to petitions for relief from domestic abuse by a parent on behalf of a child
against the child’s other parent.
I. Facts and Proceedings.
Dawn filed a petition on
the district court’s grant of Angela Saladino’s
petition for relief from domestic abuse. AFFIRMED.
Dennis D ...
EISENHAUER, J.
Donald Harms appeals from the district court’s grant of Angela Saladino’s
petition for relief from domestic abuse. He ... contends: (1) the district court erred in
entering a final domestic abuse protective order restraining him from having
contact with Saladino because he did not have sufficient notice of the “charge”
against him, and (2) there was insufficient evidence showing he committed
domestic abuse. We review these claims de novo. Iowa R. App. P. 6.4.
Harms and Saladino were involved in an extramarital affair. Saladino filed
a pro se petition for relief from
dismissal of her pro se petition for relief from domestic
abuse. REVERSED AND REMANDED.
Jennifer Cerutti, Sioux ... 11, 2007, Amber Abbenhaus filed a pro se petition for relief
from domestic abuse naming Lucas Flannegan as the ... .
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Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Clay County, Nancy L.
Whittenburg, Judge.
Plaintiff appeals the
Ingalls-Coy appeals the district court’s order following her
petition and hearing for relief from domestic abuse. AFFIRMED.
David McManus of Sole & McManus, P.C., Cedar Rapids, for appellant.
John J. Wood of Beecher, Field, Walker, Morris, Hoffman, & Johnson
P.C., Waterloo, for appellee.
Considered by Vogel, P.J., and Danilson and Tabor, JJ.
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DANILSON, J.
Kathleen Ingalls-Coy appeals the district court’s order following her
petition and ... filed a petition for relief from domestic
abuse, claiming her former husband, Scott Medhaug, had endangered her. The ... relief from domestic abuse. She contends the district
court failed to fulfill its procedural obligation to provide specific findings of fact
and conclusions of law when dismissing her petition and