Courts must issue orders of protection for a fixed period that is no more than one year in length. However, courts retain the right to modify these orders on a showing of a change in circumstances warranting modification by either party.
If a party to an order of protection files for divorce, the order of protection shall remain in place until the divorce court modifies, dissolves it, or makes it part of a divorce decree. In the case of either modification or incorporation into a divorce decree, the court must issue a separate order of protection.