10.1.6.050 Definitions

(a) "Act of Domestic Violence" means physical harm, bodily injury, or assault; or the infliction of fear that physical harm, bodily injury, or assault could occur momentarily; or terroristic threats; or, criminal sexual conduct.

(b) "Domestic Violence" means acts of violence committed by a current or former spouse or current or former partner of the victim, by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common, by a person or partner who is cohabiting with or has cohabited with the victim as a spouse or partner, or by a person similarly situated to a spouse or partner of the victim, by persons involved in a significant romantic or sexual relationship, or by a person related to the victim by blood.

(c) "Order of Protection" means a Trial Court order that requires one person to stop harming another and is intended to protect the individual from physical, mental and emotional harm by domestic violence.