This article analyses the implementation of the judicial system known as a protection order which allows family courts to take urgent measures to stop violence within the couple. The first part examines the conditions for putting the PA’s legislative agenda on its legislative agenda and the arrangements for its legal formalisation by parliamentarians. It makes it possible to grasp how this system, conceived as part of the ‘fight against violence against women’, is rooted in a family law that usually tends to replicate inequalities between women and men. The remainder of the text goes back to the way in which the JAF dealt with this procedure and how it puts them in a position to say from when the violence in the couple becomes serious and unacceptable enough to upset the usual criteria for family justice in relation to the separation of couples.