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Del. Code tit. 13, § 1510

Enforcement of interim orders

Known as the Delaware Divorce and Annulment Act

The act spans §§ 13–13 (23 sections).

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Whenever there is exhibited to any duly authorized sheriff, constable or police officer a certified copy of an order issued by the Court in an action for divorce, or annulment, enjoining any person from threatening, beating, striking, assaulting any other person, or requiring the person to remove that person’s own self from certain premises and to refrain from loitering, entering or remaining near the premises thereafter and the copy of the order shows under signature of the person so serving that a copy of the order has been properly served upon the person named in the order and the person named commits an apparent violation of its terms, it shall be the duty of the sheriff, constable or police officer to take the person named in the order immediately before the Court issuing the order or if that Court is not in session then to the nearest jail until bail is fixed and provided or until the convening of its next session, to await further action for the violation.

Official source: Delaware Code Online. Reproduced from public-domain Delaware statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.