Blake Shelton & Miranda Lambert’s Protective Order: What Does It Mean?

Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert’s divorce was filed along with a protective order – but the filing does not necessarily mean that there has been any claimed domestic violence.

Despite headlines and reports implying that the Petition for Protective Order suggests some dark underlying facts, Access Hollywood has learned that it is likely the filing was simply to keep their divorce filing and documents under seal and private.

Irven Box, an Oklahoma City attorney who is not part of Blake and Miranda’s case, clarified the filing to Access.

“A protective order in Oklahoma in this particular case simply means that the parties in this case say, ‘We don’t want anybody to know what’s going on in our case. We don’t want anyone to see what’s in the documents. We want the court to protect the documents and to seal them,'” Box explained. “That’s what a protective order in a divorce case is.”

While there seems to be little drama connected to the protective order, Box did admit the filing was highly unusual given open record laws in Oklahoma.

“This is a couple that Oklahoma looks at as the sweethearts of our state. I think the judge did a special favor for them that an everyday person off the street would not get,” Box noted.

— Eric Anderson