The Act says domestic violence includes:

• Physical abuse
• Sexual abuse
• Emotional and psychological abuse
• Intimidation
• Harassment
• Stalking (where someone follows you around, or hangs around your home, or keeps contacting you when this is unwelcome to you and you find it threatening)
• Damage to property
• Entering a person’s home without consent where people do not share the same home
• Any other controlling or abusive behaviour that harms or may cause harm to a person

Legal remedies in domestic violence cases include:

• Laying a criminal charge, for example assault, against the abuser
  (See: Laying a criminal charge against another person)

• Getting a Protection Order against the abuser under the Domestic Violence Act, including if necessary getting an order to have the abuser’s gun removed, if the abuser has used a gun to threaten the victim, and/or an order that the abuser be evicted from the common home.
  (See: Problem 2: Using the law against domestic violence and Problem 3: getting a Protection order )

• Making a civil claim against the abuser to claim compensation money for pain and suffering and any medical costs