National Center on Protection Orders and Full Faith and Credit Publications

Please note: All publications are available to download unless otherwise indicated.  For those publications not available from this page, please contact the NCPOFFC at ncffc@bwjp.org


Full Faith and Credit Topics


Publications:

Full Faith and Credit for Protection Orders:  
Assisting Survivors with Enforcement Across Jurisdictional Lines

Increasing Your Safety:  
Full Faith and Credit for Protection Orders

A Prosecutor's Guide to Full Faith and Credit for Protection Orders: 
Protecting Victims of Domestic Violence

Protecting Victims of Domestic Violence:  
A Law Enforcement Officer's Guide to Enforcing 
Protection Orders Nationwide


Full Faith and Credit:  
Enforcing Protection Orders Pocket Guide

  

 Violence Against Native Women:  A Guide for Practitioner Action

 

Compilation of State Laws

• State and Territorial Full Faith and Credit Statutes Matrix
• State and Territorial Protection Order Registry Statutes
  

Statutory Summaries

• Full Faith and Credit Statute with Definitions 18 U.S.C. §§ 2265; 2266

Resource Tools and Materials

• Engaging in a Best Practice Assessment of the Civil Protection Order System
• Certification of Protection/Restraining Order
• Emergency Protection from Abuse Order
• Model Full Faith and Credit State Code
• Model Tribal Domestic Violence Full Faith and Credit Ordinance
• Memorandum of Understanding Concerning Full Faith and Credit of Protection Orders

Miscellaneous Tools

• Advocate's Safety Envelope (Please contact NCPOFFC for this document)
• NCIC Protection Order File Toolkit for Control Terminal Operators

 

---

Protection Orders

• State Protection Order Statutes:  No Fee for Filing, Issuance, Registration and Service of Process
• Protection Order Violations Matrix
• State Protection Order Duration Matrix
• Protection Order Relief Matrix
• Stalking Protection Order Matrix
• Protection Order Definition Matrix
• Sexual Assault Protection Order Matrix
• VAWA Prohibition on Fees for Service of Protection Orders:  Implications for Law Enforcement Agencies
  

 

---

Federal Domestic Violence Crimes

• Federal Domestic Violence Crimes with Definitions; 18 USCS §§ 2261; 2261A; 2262; 2266
• Domestic Assault by a Habitual Offender; 18 USC § 117
• Domestic Violence and Stalking Repeat Offenders; 18 USCS § 2265A
• Federal Domestic Violence Crimes Case Summaries (Please contact NCPOFFC for this document)

---

Firearms


Enforcing Domestic Violence Firearm Prohibitions:  
A Report on Promising Practices

July 19, 2010 Letter from the FBI (Protection Orders and How They Apply Under Federal Prohibitor 922 (g)(8)) to all Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Users

Firearms Checklist

• Firearm Checklist for Judges
• Firearm Checklist for Law Enforcement
• Firearm Checklist for Advocates 
• Firearm Checklist for Prosecutors
  

Federal Digest of Case Law

• 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) Case Law (**Please contact NCPOFFC for this document.)
• 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9) Case Law (**Please contact NCPOFFC for this document.)

Forms

• Procedures for Firearm, Ammunition and/or Concealed Weapons Permit Surrender

Statutory Summaries

• Federal Firearms Prohibitions 18 USC § 922 (d), (g), (n) and § 921(a) (32), (33)
• Judicial Notification Provision:  Requirements of the Violence Against Women Act of 2005
• State Statutes Misdemeanor Crimes of Domestic Violence (MCDV) Matrix
• Firearms and Domestic Violence:  State and Territorial Statutory Provisions Matrix

Resource Tools and Models

• S.A.F.E. Tool (**Please contact NCPOFFC for this document)
• Model Law Enforcement Policy:  Serving and Enforcing Protection Orders & Seizing Firearms in Domestic Violence Cases
• A Passport to Safety: A Judge's Bench Card (by NCJFCJ)

 

---

Custody Tools

• Key Provisions of UCCJA, PKPA, UCCJEA & ICWA and Improvements Made by the UCCJEA for Battered Women (Child Custody Flow Chart)
• Interstate Child Custody: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA); 25 U.S.C. § 1901 et. seq.
• Interstate Child Custody: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (PKPA); 28 U.S.C. § 1738A
• Interstate Child Custody: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act (UCCJA)
• Interstate Child Custody: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA)

 

---

If you have questions or comments about NCPOFFC's publications, please email ncffc@bwjp.org. Thank you!