Applies to any assault, aggravated assault, battery, aggravated battery, sexual assault, sexual battery, stalking, aggravated stalking, kidnapping, false imprisonment, or any criminal offense resulting in physical injury or death of a family or household family by another family or household member.

You can ask the court for an injunction for protection against domestic violence if you are or have been the victim of any act of domestic violence or have reasonable cause to believe that you are in imminent danger of becoming a victim of domestic violence.

Applies to violence between individuals who have or have had a continued and significant romantic relationship within 6 months of asking for court intervention.

You can ask the court for an injunction prohibiting violence if you are a victim of dating violence and have reasonable cause to believe you are in imminent danger of becoming the victim of another act of dating violence. Parents or legal guardians may file a petition on behalf of a minor child.

Applies to two incidents of violence or stalking committed by the respondent, one of which must have been within 6 months of filing a petition for court intervention.

You can ask the court for an injunction prohibiting repeat violence if you are or have been the victim of two incidents of violence or stalking, one of which must has been within 6 months of filing the petition with the courts, and if you fear repeat violence by the respondent. This aims to protect you from further violence or contact and may result in the respondent being ordered to surrender firearms and ammunition.

Applies to any incident of sexual battery, a lewd or lascivious act committed upon or in the presence of a person younger than 16 years, luring or enticing a child, sexual performance by a child, or any other forcible felony wherein a sexual act is committed or attempted, regardless of whether criminal charges based on the incident were filed, reduced, or dismissed by the state attorney.

The victim of a sexual violence or the parent or legal guardian of a minor child living at home who is the victim of sexual violence can ask the court for an injunction for protection against sexual violence for one’s self or on behalf of the minor child if you or the minor child have reported the sexual violence to a law enforcement agency and are cooperating in any criminal proceeding against the respondent.

Applies to willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly following, harassing, or cyberstalking another person.

A person who is the victim of two incidents of stalking can file a petition for an injunction for protection against stalking in the jurisdiction where the victim resides, where the victim temporarily resides, where the respondent resides, or where the stalking took place. Potential outcomes are a temporary injunction protecting the victim from further stalking and possibly requiring respondent to surrender any firearms, or a permanent injunction requiring respondent to surrender firearms. Additionally, the respondent may be ordered to get treatment to address stalking behaviors.