Legal Question in Civil Rights Law in Virginia
Temporary Detaining Order
I have been threatened by my husband and my therapist with a TDO if I don't get my act together in another week. I have an eating disorder and I have refused hospitilization. I know what a TDO is, but I don't know what the legal ramifications are or how it will be carried out. Will this follow me for the rest of my life? Is it on my permanent record? Will they handcuff me and take me away in from of my neighbors? Stuff like that. Can someone please tell me?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Temporary Detaining Order
If by TDO you mean temporary detention order which may issue in a Title 37 civil commitment proceeding in Virginia, you can tell your husband and therapist, that an eating disorder
does not constitute the necessary mental illness or defect which is required to initiate such a proceeding
and, furthermore, the subject of this coercive commitment action must also be adjudged to be a danger to him/herself or others in order for this person to be even temporarily detained within a locked psychiatric ward (on the upper floor of an InNova hospital---or wherever).
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