
Quoting
CourtClerk
If he hit you then there should also be a criminal restraining order. Even if you file a civil restraining order, once he goes to court on the DV charges, they'll slap him with another one on top of the one you filed and you're NOT going to get that one removed because it will be the state issuing it.
The courts have a thing for protecting you from yourself because time after time they see a man hit a woman, the woman lifting the restraining order and then he beats her up again or kills her.