A court order on protection 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:
- the measures for protecting a victim or a person depending on them from the perpetrator
- the issues of moving the victim or a person depending on the victim away from the perpetrator and placing them in a shelter
- the issue of moving the perpetrator away from the place of residence of the victim
- the obligation of the perpetrator not to restrict the victim in using personal belongings, a car or other property necessary for a person to lead a normal life
- the prohibition of the perpetrator from unilaterally using the property in joint ownership
- the issues of separating the perpetrator from a minor, of regulating their meeting and communication
- the issues of approaching the victim, their workplace, or other places where the victim may stay, by the perpetrator
- the restriction or prohibition to the perpetrator to use weapons (including service weapons) during the period of validity of the protective order, or a period specified by the protective order, prohibition to purchase or obtain a permit or a licence to purchase weapons and conditions for keeping the weapons (including personal weapons) personally possessed by and/or belonging to the perpetrator, or for their temporary seizure
- the issues related to payment of the expenses of the victim’s treatment, their stay at the shelter, and other reasonable expenses, by the perpetrator
- the issues related to the implementation of measures aimed at the correction of the perpetrator’s attitudes and behaviour
- other issues necessary to be resolved for the protection of the victim
Similarly, as in the case of the decision on separation, in the case of temporary protection 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.