Florida domestic violence statutes can be found in the 2021 Florida Statutes, Chapter 741 (741.28-741.31). According to these statutes, 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 one family or household member by another family or household member.”
It is important to recognize how potentially extensive “family or household member” can be. A spouse, former spouse, a person related by blood or marriage, a person residing with you as a family, a person you have resided with in the past, or the other parent of your child can all qualify under these terms. With the exception of parents of a child, in most cases, family or household members must either currently be living together or must have lived together previously.