§ 60.29 Application to orders issued before November 1, 2008.

If you have a protective order that was issued before November 1, 2008, this law still applies to you. It doesn't matter that your order is older than the law itself. The same protections and rules still cover your case.

This also applies if you were already working on enforcing an out-of-state protective order before that date. If that enforcement process started before November 1, 2008, it keeps moving forward under this law.

Finally, if someone violated an out-of-state protective order before November 1, 2008, but you're asking the court to enforce it on or after that date, this law is what controls how that request gets handled. In short, the date the order was issued or the violation happened doesn't create a gap in protection. The law covers past orders and past violations, as long as you're asking for enforcement now.