813.12 Domestic abuse restraining orders and injunctions.
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813.12 Domestic abuse restraining orders and injunctions.
(1)Definitions. In this section:
(ab)“Adult at risk” has the meaning given in s. 55.01
(1e).
(ad)“Caregiver” means an individual who is a provider of in-home or community care to an individual through regular and direct contact.
(ag)“Dating relationship” means a romantic or intimate social relationship between 2 adult individuals but “dating relationship” does not include a casual relationship or an ordinary fraternization between 2 individuals in a business or social context. A court shall determine if a dating relationship existed by considering the length of the relationship, the type of the relationship, and the frequency of the interaction between the adult individuals involved in the relationship.
(am)“Domestic abuse” means any of the following engaged in by an adult family member or adult household member against another adult family member or adult household member, by an adult caregiver against an adult who is under the caregiver’s care, by an adult against his or her adult former spouse, by an adult against an adult with whom the individual has or had a dating relationship, or by an adult against an adult with whom the person has a child in common:
1. Intentional infliction of physical pain, physical injury or illness.
2. Intentional impairment of physical condition.
3. A violation of s. 940.225
(1),
(2)or
(3).
4. A violation of s. 940.32 .
5. A violation of s. 943.01 , involving property that belongs to the individual.
6. A threat to engage in the conduct under subd. 1. , 2. , 3. , 4. , or 5.
(ar)“Elder person” means any individual who is 60 years of age or older.
(b)“Family member” means a spouse, a parent, a child or a person related by blood or adoption to another person.
(c)“Household member” means a person currently or formerly residing in a place of abode with another person.