The defendant cannot be made to release any possessions, including money, property, checks, keys and other belongings, without a court order directing the person (or jailer) to remove such items. Most Judges will not address the release of property since they consider it a civil matter, out of their jurisdiction.
In New Jersey, appellate judges have expressed concern about frivolousrestraining orders based on claims of verbal abuse: a man calling his estranged wife to tell her he would take "drastic measures" if she didn't paythe household bills -- by which he meant having the phone disconnected -- or a husband repeatedly saying to his wife that he no longer loved her and was going to get a divorce. After several such orders were overturned on appeal four years ago, the number of restraining orders issued statewide dropped by about 20 percent.
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Nor is there any evidence that an effort to curb frivolous restraining orderswill endanger lives. When the courts in New Jersey began to issue fewerrestraining orders as a result of appellate rulings that tightened thedefinition of domestic violence (excluding verbal abuse without persistentharassment or threats), an outcry from battered women's advocates was quick to follow -- but a rise in the domestic homicide rate was not. 2ff7e9595c
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