A protection order against violence provides a number of protection remedies to ensure a victim’s safety.
One or more of the following preventive measures against violence may be granted by the court:
- obliging the perpetrator to refrain from implementing domestic violence
- removing of the perpetrator from the jointly inhabited abode for the term, defined by the court (from 3 to 18 months)
- prohibiting the perpetrator to approach the victim, the abode, the place of work and the places for social contacts and recreation of the aggrieved person under conditions and term, defined by the court (from 3 to 18 months)
- temporary determining of the place of living of the child with the suffered parent or with the parent who has not committed the violence under conditions and term, defined by the court, if this does not contradict the interests of the child (from 3 to 18 months)
- obliging the perpetrator of violence to attend specialized programmes
- directing the aggrieved persons to programmes for recovery
The measure under Item 4 shall not be imposed in case of a pending judicial dispute between the parents regarding the exercise of the parental rights, the place of residence of the child or the regime of personal relations.
In the case of protection order against violence as well, the protection of the victim’s rights to life, physical and psychological integrity prevail over the property rights of the perpetrator. Therefore, the perpetrator of domestic violence may be ordered to leave and prohibited from returning to his/her housing, even if he owns that property or if that residence is his declared address.