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Domestic Violence Laws in Florida.
Florida protection-order practice is governed primarily by Chapter 741 of the Florida Statutes, which authorizes Injunctions for Protection against Domestic Violence and related injunctions for repeat, dating, sexual, and stalking violence. Florida criminal law provides parallel domestic-violence offenses, and Florida has a firearm-relinquishment framework tied to qualifying protection injunctions.
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Florida authorizes ex parte and long-term injunctions for protection against domestic violence, with stay-away, residence, custody, and firearm-surrender provisions.
Florida provides parallel injunction frameworks for repeat violence, dating violence, sexual violence, and stalking, covering relationships outside traditional domestic violence.
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