Domestic Violence against women and children

• Domestic violence" refers to many kinds of abuse committed by a member of a family, a household, or an intimate partner against another member of the family, household, or against the intimate partner.
• Domestic Violence Orders of Protection are meant to prevent respondents from continuing to abuse the petitioner by ordering them to refrain from abuse and stay away.
• Domestic Violence Division also adjudicates cases where individuals allege they are a victim of stalking, sexual assault, or sexual abuse. People should request a Civil Protection Order if they want the person who committed a crime against them to stay away, not assault, threaten, harass or stalk them.
•  Domestic violence laws include more than heterosexual intimate partners,kidnapping, false imprisonment, or any criminal offense resulting in physical injury or death, by a person against another person."  
• Domestic violence involving spouses, former spouses, persons related by blood or marriage, persons who are or have lived together as a family, or persons who have a child in common. For persons who have a child in common, the family or household members must be currently residing together or have in the past.