Guided Pathway for applying for a peace bond

CLEO’s Guided Pathway for applying for a peace bond is for people who want to learn more about section 810 peace bonds or want to apply for one. A section 810 peace bond is a criminal court order to stop someone from:

harming you or someone in your family
damaging your property
sharing an intimate image or video of you without your consent

A peace bond requires that person to follow certain conditions or rules. It might say that they cannot contact you or your children, or go near your home, school, or workplace. If the person doesn’t follow the conditions in a peace bond, they can be charged with a crime.

You can apply for a peace bond against anyone. They don’t have to be a current or former partner or your child’s other parent. For example, you could apply for a peace bond to protect you from a neighbour or co-worker.

The pathways ask you questions about your situation, give you information to help answer them, and creates documents based on your answers.

The pathways are free to use. When you’re finished, you can save or print your forms. You will also get instructions about how to give them to the court.

You can use this pathway if:	What you need to get started:
you want to learn more about or apply for a section 810 peace bond you have a reasonable fear that someone will harm you, your family or pets, damage your property, or distribute an intimate image or video of you without your consent. Reasonable means that someone listening to you believes your fear is real, based on your evidence or proof. the person you want the peace bond against lives in Ontario the person you want the peace bond against is 12 years or older	information about yourself and anyone else you want to protect information about any property you want to protect information about the person you’re afraid of, including their name and address specific information about why you’re afraid of them the conditions or rules you want to include in your peace bond details about any steps you may have taken before to protect yourself from the person you’re afraid of, like prior peace bonds or private prosecution that you applied for, including the dates you applied for them and the courthouses you filed them at

You can use this pathway if:

What you need to get started:

you want to learn more about or apply for a section 810 peace bond
you have a reasonable fear that someone will harm you, your family or pets, damage your property, or distribute an intimate image or video of you without your consent. Reasonable means that someone listening to you believes your fear is real, based on your evidence or proof.
the person you want the peace bond against lives in Ontario
the person you want the peace bond against is 12 years or older

information about yourself and anyone else you want to protect
information about any property you want to protect
information about the person you’re afraid of, including their name and address
specific information about why you’re afraid of them
the conditions or rules you want to include in your peace bond
details about any steps you may have taken before to protect yourself from the person you’re afraid of, like prior peace bonds or private prosecution that you applied for, including the dates you applied for them and the courthouses you filed them at

Using the pathway

You can sign up to create an account or use the pathway as a guest. If you choose not to create an account, the system will time out after 4 hours. You must create an account if you want to save your work on the system or use the other pathways.

Any personal information that you enter into the pathways is confidential. CLEO will not give your personal information to anyone unless you ask us to do this. Read more in the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Need help?

If you need help using the Guided Pathways or have questions, contact support@cleo.on.ca.

The Guided Pathways don’t give you legal advice. For advice about your situation, talk to a lawyer.