{"id":500,"date":"2022-11-24T14:55:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T12:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahslaw-new.digitalzoo.dev\/?p=500"},"modified":"2023-05-08T15:44:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T13:44:10","slug":"domestic-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahslaw.co.za\/domestic-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"500\" class=\"elementor elementor-500\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a4577fd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a4577fd\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-bab868e\" data-id=\"bab868e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-579e311 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"579e311\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 25-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>In terms of the\u00a0<strong>Domestic Violence Act, 1998<\/strong>\u00a0the term &#8220;domestic violence&#8221; violence includes the following:<\/p><ol><li>physical abuse;<\/li><li>sexual abuse;<\/li><li>emotional, verbal and psychological abuse;<\/li><li>economic abuse;<\/li><li>intimidation;<\/li><li>harassment;<\/li><li>stalking;<\/li><li>damage to property;<\/li><li>entry into the complainant&#8217;s residence without consent, where the parties do not \u00a0\u00a0share the same residence; or<\/li><li>any other controlling or abusive behaviour towards a complainant, where such conduct harms, or may cause imminent harm to, the safety, health or wellbeing of the complainant;<\/li><\/ol><p><br \/>Should you be a victim of any of the above acts we can assist you to apply to the relevant court for an\u00a0<strong>interim protection order<\/strong>. If it is proved by way of verbal evidence or evidence on affidavit that the aggressor (respondent) is committing or has committed an act of domestic violence\u00a0<strong>and\u00a0<\/strong>undue hardship may be suffered by you as a result of the domestic violence should a protection order not be issued immediately the court\u00a0<strong>must\u00a0<\/strong>issue an interim protection order against the respondent.<\/p><p>As notice of the application is normally not given to the respondent prior to the issuing of the interim protection order, a return date will be allocated for the finalisation of the interim protection order. On this date the respondent may challenge the interim protection order being made final.<\/p><p>Our trial attorneys at AH Stander &amp; Agenbag Inc. is competent and experienced to assist you through this often traumatic and stressful time.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In terms of the Domestic Violence Act, 1998 the term &#8220;domestic violence&#8221; violence includes the following:<br \/>\nphysical abuse;<br \/>\nsexual abuse;<br \/>\n emotional, verbal and psychological abuse;<br \/>\neconomic abuse;<br \/>\nintimidation;<br \/>\nharassment;<br \/>\nstalking;<br \/>\ndamage to property;<br \/>\nentry into the complainant&#8217;s residence without consent, where the parties do not   share the same residence; or<br \/>\nany other controlling or abusive behaviour towards a complainant, where such conduct harms, or may cause imminent harm           to, the safety, health or wellbeing of the complainant;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"%%post_title%% %%sep%% %%sitetitle%%","_seopress_titles_desc":"In terms of the Domestic Violence Act, of 1998 the term \u201cdomestic violence\u201d violence includes the following: physical abuse; sexual abuse; emotional abuse...","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahslaw.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahslaw.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahslaw.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahslaw.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahslaw.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahslaw.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahslaw.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahslaw.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahslaw.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahslaw.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahslaw.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}