Professional domestic violence counseling

Professional domestic violence counseling - An order requiring the defendant to

receive professional domestic violence counseling from either a private or courtappointed

source and, in that event, at the court’s discretion requiring the defendant

to provide the court at specified intervals with documentation of attendance at the

professional counseling. The court may order the defendant to pay for the

professional counseling. [N.J.S.A. 2C:25-29b(5).]

This section permits the court to order the defendant into a batterers

intervention program as part of the professional domestic violence counseling option.

Victims shall never be ordered into counseling of any kind.

4.14.7 Restraints from certain locations - An order restraining the defendant from entering

the residence, property, school, or place of employment of the victim or other family

or household members of the victim and requiring the defendant to stay away from

any specified place that is named in the order and is frequented regularly by the

victim or other family or household members. [N.J.S.A. 2C:25-29b(6).]

A victim shall not be required to disclose any residence or place of

employment nor shall the court require such disclosure on the record. The FRO

should include (where appropriate) specific names and addresses identifying the

locations from which the defendant is barred and the people that the defendant is

restrained from contacting, communicating with, harassing, or stalking.