Domestic Violence is defined to include any criminal offense resulting in physical injury or death of one family or household member by another family or household member Under Section 741.28, F.S,.
Most common crimes of domestic violence in Florida involve charges of assault, sexual assault, sexual battery, aggravated assault, battery, aggravated battery, stalking, aggravated stalking, kidnapping, or false imprisonment.
Family or household member means spouses, former spouses, persons related by blood or marriage, persons who are presently residing together as if a family or who have resided together in the past as if a family, and persons who are parents of a child in common regardless of whether they have been married. Except for individuals who have a child in common, the family or household members must be currently residing or have resided together in the same single dwelling unit in the past.