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This includes relatives, gay or lesbian couples, engaged couples, people involved in adoption proceedings, divorced couples, unmarried parents of a child, unmarried couples no longer living together.

Where you both own the property, or have an interest in the property, or an agreement which allows you to live in the property. Or because the law says you have certain rights to the property, the following injunction order can be applied for:

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

These can include:

• Allowing you to remain in the property.
• Allowing you back into the property if you are being prevented from returning to the property.
• Exclude the other occupant of the property from all or part of the property.
• Impose a set of rules about the occupation of the property
• State that you and the other occupant must live in separate parts of the property.
• Exclude the other occupant from coming within a certain distance of the property.
• Order the other occupant to leave the property or part of it.

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

Where you do not own the property, and you have no interest in the property, and no agreement which allows you to live there and no legal right to the property, you can only apply for the following injunction orders:

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

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