What legal action can I take against a family member that is constantly harassing my family

Our system of domestic violence and its various orders of protection and retraining orders works best when both parties are naive. That is to say that when a couple in the ordinary course of living together get into a spat and the man beats up the woman, our present system of laws works fairly well to protect the woman from further attack. This of course assumes that couples living together beat each other up in the first place.

Please realize that woman assault men too, but the law works well nevertheless.

However, when the couple get too smart after several repeat invocations of the domestic violence system, the law falls apart. The attacker learns what defenses to invoke to avoid arrest: "she hit me with the stick", "I was merely sleeping" or "she is lying to get me arrested". The "victim" learns new ways to fabricate allegations to beat the anticipated defenses. The result is the taped "beatings" or the video taped "ketchup" scenes where the victim's lips are covered in ketchup on a video.

Your question places you at the beginning of a protective proceeding. Navigate those waters carefully and retain a competent attorney who understands the allegations and defenses so as to actually get for you protection against these abuses. If the abuser has connections with the police or the district attorney's office, have an expert witness available to explain those hidden mechanisms and how these further abuse.

These are treacherous waters. Navigate them wisely.