Domestic Violence Injunctions

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Unmarried Couples

If you own a property together, or you have an interest in the property in which you both live, or are allowed to live there because of an agreement. Or because the law says you have certain rights to live in the property, the following injunction orders can be applied for:

1. Non-Molestation Order - See married couples for definition.
2. Occupation Order - See married couples for definition.

Such orders can:

• Allow you to remain in the home if your partner is trying to get you out.
• Allow you back into the home if your partner has thrown you out or is preventing you going back into the home.
• Exclude your partner from all or part of the home.
• Impose a set of rules about living in the home.
• State that you or your partner must live in separate parts of the home.
• Exclude your partner from coming within a certain distance of your home.
• Order your partner to leave the home or part of it.

For a Power of Arrest - See married couples for definition.

If only your partner owns the property, or has an interest in the property, or is allowed to live in the property because of an agreement. Or because the law says your partner has certain rights to the property. The following injunction orders can be applied for:

1. Non-Molestation Order - See married couples for definition.
2. Occupation Order - See married couples for definition.

These orders can include:

• Preventing you from being excluded or evicted from the home or any part of it.
• Allowing you to return to the home and to continue to live there.
• Impose a set of rules about living in the home.
• Take away your partner's right to live in the property.
• Order your partner to leave part of the home or all of it.
• Exclude your partner from a defined area around the home.

For a Power of Arrest - See married couples for definition.

Where neither of you owns the property, or has an interest in the property, or is entitled to live in the property because of an agreement and you have no rights under the law, the following injunction orders can be applied for:

1. Non-Molestation Order - See married couples for definition.
2. Occupation Order - See married couples for definition.

These orders can include:

• Allowing you to return to the home and to continue to live there.
• Impose a set of rules about living in the home.
• Order your partner to leave the home or part of it.
• Exclude your partner from a defined area around the home.

For a Power of Arrest - See married couples for definition.

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