Q: If a person has an order of protection on you can they legally just walk up to you and try to talk to you
A: OPs are typically one way, which means the petitioner, the one who asked for the OP, can do whatever they want. The respondent, the one the OP was issued against, is the restricted party. If this person just walks up to you, I suggest turning around and walking the other way.
William Wolf agrees with this answer
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What Mr. Ooink wrote is generally correct. We can't really say more without seeing the order itself.
If you have an order against you, and the petitioner who got the order is making contact with you, consider seeing an attorney to weigh options like going into court yourself to ask that the order be modified to bar the petitioner's contact as well.
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