Q: Yes can a person be added to a protection order during court without the respondent being properly notified or served
During the hearing I was late to court both me and my ex wife filed motions for protection hers only listed her three boys and her self where as mine listed me and our daughter, now my motion was dismissed due to not being on time but I'm refiling my motion of protection but after the hearing in the motion of filing a file my daughter is now listed on my ex wifes protection or and me as the respondent was not I formed neither by person, mail or anything no motion was filed to amend the order to include y daughter and I thought any change or add to a motion and the respondent has to be notified first before it can go before a judge
A: You could certainly file a motion to reconsider the addition of your daughter to your ex-wife's order for protection. I doubt that you will have much success refiling your request for an OFP since you showed up late. The Court system is not set up to allow for successive requests for orders of protection where a request was dismissed due to showing up late or not showing up.
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