Domestic Violence Restraining Orders

In California, domestic violence has been committed when a current or former spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend, co-parent or cohabitant, or someone related to you through blood or marriage causes physical injury, initiates a sexual assault, instills fear of immediate danger, intimidates, stalks, threatens or harasses you in-person or by phone or email, and destroys personal property.

Domestic Violence can be physical violence, a verbal threat of physical violence or a pattern of harassing behavior. The victim and the abuser must have a close relationship (married, divorced, separated, dating or used to date, live together or used to live together as a couple), or be related (parent, child, brother, sister, grandmother, grandfather, in-laws).

Domestic violence is also called “abuse”. "Abuse" means to hurt, throw things, pull hair, follow, harass, sexually assault, murder, break into the victim’s home or work, destroy or steal the victim’s property, intimidate or to threaten to do any of these things. Abuse can be spoken, written, emotional or physical.

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