Title 14 — Domestic Relations and Persons

Each of the service centers shall develop a goal to serve a stated number of urban and rural displaced homemakers. In addition, the service centers shall develop plans for including displaced homemakers in existing job training and placement programs offered by job service, colle…

Service centers are responsible for assisting in preparing the trainee for employment. The superintendent shall work in cooperation with the appropriate agencies.

The service centers shall, in cooperation with other existing service programs, ensure that displaced homemakers receive information and referral services which include: 1. A health counseling and referral clinic based on principles of preventive health care and consumer health e…

The superintendent may delegate any or all of the authority granted by this chapter as the superintendent deems appropriate.

The superintendent shall establish an advisory body to the department which shall consist of one citizen member representing each planning region of the state and two citizen members to be selected at large. Membership may represent displaced homemakers, local service providers, …

The superintendent, in cooperation with the advisory body, the administrator of each center, and with appropriate heads of nonprofit agencies or organizations carrying out the programs, shall by January 30, 1985, prepare and furnish to the legislative assembly an evaluation repor…

There is hereby created in the department a displaced homemaker's account. The superintendent may apply for and accept any funds, grants, gifts, or services made available for displaced homemakers by any agency or department of the federal government or any private agency or indi…

1. There is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the displaced homemaker account in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars per biennium, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to the superintendent of public instruction …

1. "Department" means the department of health and human services. 2. "Domestic violence" includes physical harm, bodily injury, sexual activity compelled by physical force, assault, or the infliction of fear of imminent physical harm, bodily injury, sexual activity compelled by …

Repealed by S.L. 2025, ch. 145, § 17.

If the court finds that a party's allegation of domestic violence in a civil protection order proceeding, divorce proceeding, parenting responsibility proceeding, parenting time proceeding, separation proceeding, or termination of parental rights proceeding is false and not made …

Repealed by S.L. 2025, ch. 145, § 17.

Repealed by S.L. 2025, ch. 145, § 17.

Repealed by S.L. 2025, ch. 145, § 17.

Repealed by S.L. 2025, ch. 145, § 17.

Repealed by S.L. 2025, ch. 145, § 17.

Repealed by S.L. 2025, ch. 145, § 17.

Repealed by S.L. 2025, ch. 145, § 17.

Repealed by S.L. 2025, ch. 145, § 17.

The district court may require an individual who has committed a crime involving domestic violence, as defined in this chapter, or who has violated a domestic violence protection order to complete domestic violence treatment under the direction of the domestic violence court prog…

Repealed by S.L. 1989, ch. 589, § 16.

1. If a law enforcement officer has probable cause to believe that a person has committed a crime involving domestic violence, whether the offense is a felony or misdemeanor, and whether or not the crime was committed in the presence of the officer, the law enforcement officer sh…

1. A law enforcement officer may arrest an individual without a warrant if the arrest is made within twelve hours from the time the officer determines there is probable cause to arrest for an assault of a family or household member as defined in section 14-07.1-01, whether or not…

A law enforcement officer shall make a written report of the investigation of any allegation of domestic violence regardless of whether an arrest was made. If an officer determines through the course of an investigation that one of the individuals was the predominant aggressor, t…

Repealed by S.L. 2009, ch. 134, § 3.

1. Every law enforcement agency shall develop and implement, with assistance from the criminal justice training and statistics division, specific operational guidelines for arrest policies and procedures in crimes involving domestic violence. The guidelines must include procedure…

The domestic violence and sexual assault prevention fund is a special fund in the state treasury. The moneys accumulated in the fund are allocated to the department for distribution as provided by this chapter and within the limits of legislative appropriation. The fund is not su…

The department shall administer moneys in the domestic violence and sexual assault prevention fund for grants to domestic violence sexual assault organizations as defined in section 14-07.1-01. Up to ten percent of the fund may be allocated to the state domestic violence sexual a…

The department shall: 1. Respond to all applicants within sixty days after the deadline for receipt of applications, whether or not the applicant is eligible for funds. 2. Ensure that no more than ten percent of the moneys allocated to the domestic violence prevention fund in any…

If an individual charged with or arrested for a crime involving domestic violence, including a violation of a civil protection order under chapter 14-07.7 or an order prohibiting contact under section 12.1-31.2-02, is released from custody, a district or municipal court may requi…

1. The attorney general's office may establish a domestic violence fatality review commission to review domestic violence deaths that have occurred in the state. The domestic violence fatality review commission may review incidents in which the investigation of fatal incidents of…

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Counseling center" means a domestic violence organization as defined in section 14-07.1-01. 2. "Private information" means any information disclosed by a minor to a counselor, employee, or volunteer at a counseli…

Except as provided in section 14-07.3-03, a counseling center may not disclose private information concerning a minor to the parent, guardian, or custodian of the minor unless the minor authorizes the counseling center to disclose the information or the disclosure of the informat…

The counseling center shall establish procedures to provide access by a parent, guardian, or custodian of a minor to private information concerning the minor, subject to the following: 1. The counseling center may deny parental access to private information when the minor, who is…

In this chapter: 1. "Foreign protection order" means a protection order issued by a tribunal of another state. 2. "Issuing state" means the state whose tribunal issues a protection order. 3. "Mutual foreign protection order" means a foreign protection order that includes provisio…

1. A tribunal of this state shall enforce the terms of a valid foreign protection order, including terms that provide relief that a tribunal of this state would lack power to provide but for this section. A tribunal of this state shall enforce a valid foreign protection order iss…

1. A law enforcement officer of this state, upon determining that there is probable cause to believe that a valid foreign protection order exists and that the order has been violated, shall enforce the order as if it were the order of a tribunal of this state. Presentation of a p…

1. Any individual may register a foreign protection order in this state. To register a foreign protection order, an individual shall present a certified copy of the order to any clerk of district court in this state. 2. Upon receipt of a protection order, the clerk of district co…

This state or a local governmental agency, or a law enforcement officer, prosecuting attorney, clerk of district court, or any state or local governmental official acting in an official capacity, is immune from civil and criminal liability for an act or omission arising out of th…

Pursuing remedies under this chapter does not preclude a protected individual from pursuing other legal or equitable remedies against the respondent.

Violation of a protection order under this chapter is a class A misdemeanor. A second or subsequent violation of such an order is a class C felony.

1. "Canadian domestic violence protection order" means a judgment or part of a judgment or order issued in a civil proceeding by a court of Canada under the law of the issuing jurisdiction which relates to domestic violence and prohibits a respondent from: a. Being in physical pr…

1. A law enforcement officer of this state, upon determining there is probable cause to believe a valid Canadian domestic violence protection order exists and that the order has been violated, shall enforce the Canadian domestic violence protection order as if it were the order o…

1. A tribunal may issue an order enforcing or refusing to enforce a Canadian domestic violence protection order on application of: a. A person authorized by the law of this state other than this chapter to seek enforcement of a domestic protection order; or b. A respondent. 2. A …

1. Any individual may register a Canadian domestic violence protection order in this state. To register the order, an individual shall present a certified copy of the order to any clerk of district court in this state. 2. Upon receipt of a Canadian domestic violence protection or…

This state or a local governmental agency, or a law enforcement officer, prosecuting attorney, clerk of district court, or any state or local governmental official acting in an official capacity, is immune from civil and criminal liability for an act or omission arising out of th…

Pursuing remedies under this chapter does not preclude a protected individual from pursuing other legal or equitable remedies against the respondent.

Violation of a Canadian domestic violence protection order under this chapter is a class A misdemeanor. A second or subsequent violation of a Canadian domestic violence protection order is a class C felony.

1. "Abusive litigation" means litigation in which: a. The parties have or had an intimate partner relationship or any other individual with a sufficient relationship to the abusing individual as determined by the court under section 14-07.7-07; b. The filing party has been found …

1. If a court finds by a preponderance of the evidence any of the litigation pending before the court constitutes abusive litigation, the court shall dispose of the litigation with prejudice. 2. If the court finds abusive litigation, the court shall enter an order restricting abu…