Economic Abuse Economic abuse is behaviour that is coercive, deceptive or unreasonably controls another person without that person’s consent in one of two ways: (a) by denying the other person the economic or financial autonomy they would have had but for the behaviour; • (d) without lawful excuse, preventing a person from having access to joint financial assets for the purposes of meeting normal household expenses; • (b) removing or keeping a family member's property without permission, or threatening to do so; • © disposing of property owned by a person, or owned jointly with a person, against the person's wishes and without lawful excuse; Emotional or psychological abuse Emotional or psychological abuse means behaviour towards another person that torments, intimidates, harasses or is offensive to the other person. • (e)preventing a person from seeking or keeping employment; • (a) coercing a person to relinquish control over assets and income; This refers only to the actual effect of behaviour on the affected family member. There is no requirement that the respondent must intend this effect or for the response of the affected family member to be assessed as ‘reasonable’ (a) repeated derogatory taunts, including racial taunts; preventing a person from making or keeping connections with the person's family, friends or culture, including cultural or spiritual ceremonies or practices, or preventing the person from expressing the person's cultural identity; Technology-facilitated abuse is not specifically named in the Family Violence Protection Act 2008. Instead, the Act examines the conduct and consequences, and so where technology is used to emotionally and psychologically abuse (s 5(1)(a)(ii)), threaten (s 5(10(a)(iv)), coerce (s 5(1)(a)(vii)), or control family members, it will fall within the scope of the Act. Technology-facilitated abuse is a form of controlling behaviour that involves the use of technology as a means to coerce, stalk or harass another person. Examples include monitoring or stalking someone through any type of surveillance device (such as a tracking system or spyware), sending abusive texts, emails or messages via social media,
(b) that family violence is a fundamental violation of human rights and is unacceptable in any form;
1.3 People covered by the Act Family members A ‘family member’ of a person means: (a) a current or former spouse or domestic partner (defined in s 9); (b) a person (as well as a child of that person) who has or has had an intimate personal relationship (not necessarily sexual) with the relevant person; Page 15 of 21
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