2019 US Virgin Islands Code
Title 5 - Judicial Procedure
Subtitle 2 - Family Division Procedure
Chapter 201 - Family Division of the Superior Court
Subchapter IV - Abuse and Neglect Matters
§ 2552. Order of protection; enforcement
(a) The court may make an order of protection in assistance of, or as a condition of, any other order authorized under this subchapter. The order of protection may set forth reasonable conditions of behavior to be observed for a specified period by any person who is before the court. Such an order may require any such person:
(1) to stay away from the home or place of custody of the child;
(2) to permit a parent to visit the child at stated periods;
(3) to abstain from offensive conduct against the child, his parent or any person to whom legal custody of the child is awarded;
(4) to give proper attention to the care of the home;
(5) to cooperate in good faith with an agency to which custody of the child is entrusted by the court or with an agency or association to which the child is referred by the court;
(6) to refrain from acts of commission or omission that tend to make the home not a proper place for the child.
(b) Orders of protection may be enforced by citation to show cause for contempt of court by reason of any violation thereof and, should the welfare of the child so require, by the issuance of a warrant to take the alleged violator into custody and bring him before the court.
