What happens when someone files an injunction against you?

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Hello everybody out there in social media land, it's your personal injury family law attorney, Derek Bernstein here to answer more legal questions. I'm getting a lot of family law questions, especially about injunctions so here's another one. One I got was what happens when someone files an injunction against you? What happens when somebody files an injunction against you? So, they go to court, either through an attorney by themselves, they go to court, they file an injunction and let's say it got denied or granted doesn't really matter. Same process. If it gets granted, you're going to get served by the court. Sheriff is going to come to your house, come to your job and say, here you are, your served, read it over. You can't contact this person, you can't have friends contact them, you can't contact their mom, all those things. If you get denied, it's going to tell you the same paper that you're going to get served, except it's going to say it got denied.

You can go about living your life, nothing changes. I wouldn't recommend contacting them and then both of them are going to have a return date on them. Return date is your court hearing with this person, what you need to do then is start preparing. That means either hire an attorney or start preparing, talk to witnesses who were there, get people to show up on your behalf, start preparing, think of what you're going to do to defend yourself. So those are the types of things you need to be prepared for when you are served, but there are statutory time periods of about two weeks is when the return hearing is going to be. If you want an attorney, get one, immediately call a good one. Criminal attorneys do, this family law attorneys do this, get with them, get in there somebody who can do really good in court. Somebody who is a good speaker who can cross examine people and is kind of quick on their feet because in injunctions, this stuff changes really quickly and you need somebody who can run their mouth really good. So, it's your personal injury family law attorney, Derek Bernstein here answering some more questions about injunctions today.

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In New Jersey, can I file an Injunction agst my brother, who has become POA of our mother's estate, whom I've lived w/ for 30 years + taken care of her + her chores + property chores? He brought 6 30yd dumpsters in + threw a lot of my clothing, sewing fabric+sewing machines away into dumpsters behind my back; hiring help that just kept me in one part of the house while they just totally threw everything out. just emptied all my bins into dumpsters- all my belongings. he is saying well you're not gonna have the room to take these things since your next apartment you're going to rent. you're a Social Services Disabled w/ food stamps person. This appears like unfair treatment + it has been. This is the worst my brother has acted toward me- very ignorant and rude doing many ignorant things throughout the entire move. What is my course of action besides getting an attorney? Is an injunction the right thing to do while I wait for his Eviction notice?

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