Telcoguy1, if everything you say is true and there has been no contact since 2014, and even if there was and it was of "good behaviour", then fight this vexatious ivo. I see you are in Queensland, the state that actually has legislation that the police must follow prior to handing out one of these IVO's but guess what...They never do.
So you will be appearing in court pretty soon. The first hearing is just to see how you plead. All of 10 minutes, but expect to sit in the court house foyer for most of the day. Just self represent for this, save your dollars.
Walk in, tell the Judge you will be contesting this vexatious IVO on the fact that A. the Queensland Police never interviewed me prior to the IVO being put on me, which they are legislated to do, and secondly, if they had, they would of found out that this is vexatious and the only evidence that the applicant is relying on is over 4 years old and was never abusive in nature.
You will then been given a trial date. Months away.
Once again, it's up to you if you want to self represent, or this time, have representation. You're a young fellow and you don't need this crap hanging over your head or on your file, you don't need travel restrictions, you don't need job restrictions, so fight it.
I'm sick to death of this IVO, DVO crap going on in society these days, and QPS just hand them out like candy instead of doing their jobs and "investigating" them further. As the solicitor said to me, "its a snowball thats got out of hand, and no one can stand in its way to stop it"....
Fight it all the way, but don't loose your head to shelling out thousands of dollars, when you can do it yourself. Remember it's your paperwork/evidence that does the talking for you in these events.
And as Sammy01 said... do not make contact. That done and dusted. And things can go south from here pretty quickly, should you make contact. And yes as a bloke it's only normal to try to find out "what the hell just happened"... but in this instance save your talking for the court room
