If you are in immediate danger, call 999. For confidential support at any time, the National Domestic Abuse Helpline is 0808 2000 247, free and open 24 hours.
Non-Molestation & Occupation Order Solicitors in Harrow
If someone is threatening you, harassing you, or making you afraid in your own home, there are orders available to stop it. A non-molestation order prevents someone contacting you or coming near you. An occupation order decides who stays in the family home.
Kenton Solicitors advises on these applications and can act quickly. Where the situation is urgent, an application can be made without the other person being told in advance, so that protection is in place before they are aware of it.
You do not need to have reported anything to the police, and you do not need to have decided what you want to do about the relationship. Come and talk it through first.
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Non-Molestation and Occupation Orders
These two orders do different things and are often applied for together.
Non-Molestation Orders
A non-molestation order prevents someone from contacting you, coming near you, or behaving in a way that frightens or harasses you. Breaking it is a criminal offence, so the police can act.
- Stopping calls, messages, and contact online
- Preventing someone approaching you
- Keeping someone away from your home or work
- Preventing contact through other people
- Protecting your children as well as you
Occupation Orders
An occupation order decides who can live in the family home. It can require someone to leave, allow you to return if you have had to go elsewhere, or set out which parts of the home each of you may use.
- Requiring someone to leave the home
- Allowing you to return if you have left
- Keeping someone away from the surrounding area
- Applies whether or not you own or rent it
- Can be made regardless of whose name it is in
Applying for an Order
Where the situation is urgent, protection can be in place within a day or two.
Talk to Us
Tell us what has been happening. Everything is confidential, and you are not committed to anything by having the conversation.
Preparing the Application
We prepare a written account of what has happened and submit it to the court, usually the same day where matters are urgent.
Immediate Protection
Where the situation requires it, an order can be made without the other person being told beforehand, so protection starts straight away.
The Return Hearing
A short hearing follows where the other person can respond. We represent you throughout and advise on what happens next.
It Does Not Have to Be Physical
Protection is not limited to situations where someone has been hurt. Threats, intimidation, constant messaging, controlling what you do or who you see, controlling the money, and behaviour that leaves you frightened in your own home are all recognised.
People often hold back because they think what is happening to them is not serious enough, or because there is no proof. Neither is a reason not to have the conversation. Come in and describe what has been going on, and we will tell you honestly whether there is something that can be done.
You also do not have to have decided anything about the relationship. Many people want protection in place while they work out what they want to do, and that is a perfectly reasonable position.
Speak to a SolicitorYou Do Not Need a Police Report
An application can be made whether or not you have contacted the police. The two are separate, and one does not depend on the other.
Breaching an Order Is a Criminal Matter
Where a non-molestation order is breached, the police can arrest. That is what gives these orders real weight rather than being just a piece of paper.
It Applies Beyond Partners
These orders are not limited to husbands, wives, and partners. They can cover former partners, family members, and others you have lived with.
Children Can Be Included
An order can protect your children as well as you. Arrangements for the children can be dealt with alongside it where that is needed.
Situations We Advise On
Threats and Intimidation
Where someone is threatening you or behaving in a way that leaves you frightened, whether or not anything physical has happened.
Unwanted Contact
Repeated calls, messages, or contact online from a former partner that has continued despite you asking them to stop.
Controlling Behaviour
Where someone controls where you go, who you see, or your access to money. This is recognised and taken seriously.
Needing Someone to Leave
Where you need the other person out of the home so that you and the children can stay there safely.
Wanting to Return Home
Where you have had to leave and want to go back, with the other person kept away.
Facing an Application
Where a non-molestation or occupation order has been applied for against you. You are entitled to respond and to be advised, and we act in these matters too.
Non-Molestation Order Solicitors Serving Harrow
We advise people across Harrow and the surrounding areas of north-west London. Being local matters here more than in most of our work — you can walk in, and where an application is urgent we can act the same day.
Our office on Kenton Road is open Monday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm. If you would rather not be seen coming in, telephone and video appointments are available and we can arrange a time that suits you.
Urgent Matters
If you need protection quickly, call us and say it is urgent. Everything discussed is confidential and you are not committed to anything by making the call.
020 8907 2444or email info@kentonsolicitors.co.uk
Support Available Anytime
In an emergency: 999
National Domestic Abuse Helpline: 0808 2000 247
The helpline is free, confidential, and open 24 hours a day.
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