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[quote=Anonymous]1.  DO NOT fail to show up.  You got notice so you can be there to defend yourself.  If you're not there, the judge only hears her side.  Anything could happen.  
2.  Take whatever evidence you have with you.  (Letter from potential employer, schedule planner, whatever else you have ....)   These things move fast and informally.  If you don't have it with you, it doesn't exist. 
3.  Different jurisdictions are different, and I only know about DC.  In DC, in domestic violence court, you do need to have some kind of relationship between the person seeking the order and the person they're seeking it against.  Since it appears that doesn't exist here, this should get thrown out of DV court, but you want to be there to be sure.  (See #1.)  To get a stay-away order against you in DC, APW would have to go to civil division, not DV court.  (PP called this a peace order -- same thing, not sure what they're calling it these days in DC or other jurisdictions.)  Civil division moves just a bit more slowly than DV, but the same general advice applies.  [/quote]

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