Domestic Violence Under Colorado Law
According to the Colorado law C.R.S 18-6-800.3(1), domestic violence is "an act of violence or threatening violence to a person to whom the victim is intimately involved and has been involved intimately in the past." Intimate relationships do not only apply to people living together or to married people. It could also refer to former spouses, spouses, children, domestic partners, boyfriends, girlfriends, and roommates. Domestic violence contains physical, emotional, verbal, and sexual abuse. It can also pertain to any other crime against a person or their property, such as a pet, used to control, coerce, intimidate,