Domestic violence is defined in the Florida statutes as, “…any assault, aggravated assault, battery, aggravated battery, sexual assault, sexual battery, stalking, aggravated stalking, kidnapping, false imprisonment, or any criminal offense resulting in physical injury or death of one family or household member by another family or household member.”  The most common instances involve one person hitting the other, choking the other or blocking the other from leaving a room or a house.
The statute includes in the definition “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.  With the exception of persons who have a child in common, the family or household members must be currently residing or have in the past resided together in the same single dwelling unit.”
A domestic violence injunction is a court order that subjects the other person to criminal charges if that person comes around you or contacts you while the injunction is in effect.