25-10-5.2.   Restrictions on issuance of mutual orders for protection against abuse. No court may, pursuant to the provisions of § 25-10-5, issue a mutual order enjoining both petitioner and respondent from committing acts of domestic abuse unless:

             (1)      Both the petitioner and the respondent personally appear;

             (2)      The respondent alleges, under oath, the existence of domestic abuse by stating the specific facts and circumstances of the domestic abuse;

             (3)      The court finds, by a preponderance of the evidence, that domestic abuse has taken place.

Source: SL 1996, ch 169.

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