All acts of physical, sexual, psychological or economic violence that occur within the family or domestic unit, irrespective of biological or legal family ties, or between former or current spouses or partners, whether or not the perpetrator shares or has shared the same residence as the victim.
… in the ongoing, unchanging relationship of dependency. DomesticViolence: Article 2 paragraph 2 of the Counteracting Violence Against Women Act (2010): “one-time or prevalent …