6.2.2 Duration

These orders can be permanent, but must be issued prior to the divorce; additionally, if an injunction is not included in the divorce, prior injunctions issued under this statute may expire upon divorce.1  These injunctions, if granted at divorce, should be included in the divorce judgment and must also be reduced to a Uniform Abuse Prevention Order form for submission to the LPOR.

• 1Lawrence v. Lawrence, 02-1066 (La. App. 3 Cir. 3/5/03), 839 So. 2d 1201, 1203 (finding that an injunction may not be issued three years after divorce); Steele v. Steele, 591 So. 2d 810, 812 (La. App. 3 Cir. 1991) (finding that a pre-divorce injunction under predecessor statute expired upon divorce when not expressly continued in divorce judgment).