Bill Summaries: H 355 ENSURE SAME-SEX DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROT. ORDER.

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  • Summary date: Mar 13 2023 - View Summary

    Current law allows persons in a personal relationship to obtain a protective order on the grounds of domestic violence if certain types of injuries occurred. GS 50B-1 defines personal relationship as including persons who either live together or who have lived together or who are in a current or former dating relationship as “persons of the opposite sex.” The act amends GS 50B-1 to remove references to persons of the opposite sex from those instances so that the law would enable couples of any sex to obtain a protective order if all other grounds for the order were present.