Domestic violence orders
Introduction
New changes in place
The Sentencing and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2022 has now passed.
It includes changes to sentencing for certain offences.
Read more on the Department of Attorney-General and Justice website.
A domestic violence order (DVO) is a protection order made by the Local Court to protect you against domestic violence or threats of violence.
It can stop someone from doing all of the following:
- contacting you
- using violence against you
- causing damage to your property, including injury or death to animals
- threatening to use violence against you
- stalking and harassing you
- selling your property without your knowledge
- pressuring you to give them money.
Rules of a domestic violence order
There are different types of domestic violence orders with different rules for the person the order is being sought against.
These include any of the following:
- full non-contact
- non violence
- full non-contact while intoxicated.
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