Louisiana § RS 40:2024.2 - Definitions

§ RS 40:2024.2. Definitions

            For the purposes of this Part, the following terms have the following meanings ascribed to them, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

            (1) "Adult" means any individual eighteen years of age or older, or any person under the age of eighteen who has been emancipated by marriage or otherwise.

            (2) "Dating partner" means any person who is involved or has been involved in a sexual or intimate relationship with the offender characterized by the expectation of affectionate involvement independent of financial considerations, regardless of whether the person presently lives or formerly lived in the same residence with the offender. "Dating partner" shall not include a casual relationship or ordinary association between persons in a business or social context.

            (3) "Domestic abuse" includes but is not limited to physical or sexual abuse and any offense against the person, physical or nonphysical, as defined in the Louisiana Criminal Code, except negligent injury and defamation, committed by one family member, household member, or dating partner against another. "Domestic abuse" also includes sexual abuse as defined in R.S. 15:1503.

            (4) "Domestic abuse fatality" means any death of a person resulting from an incident of domestic abuse or attempted domestic abuse, including the death of a person who is not a family member, household member, or dating partner of the perpetrator, or the suicide of a person where there are implications that a person is the victim of domestic abuse prior to his suicide. For the purposes of this Section, "domestic abuse fatality" shall be interpreted broadly to give the Domestic Abuse Fatality Review Panel discretion to review fatalities that have occurred both directly or peripherally to domestic relationships.

            (5) "Family member" means spouses, former spouses, parents, children, stepchildren, unborn children, foster parents, foster children, other ascendants, and other descendants. "Family member" also means the other parent or foster parent of any child or foster child of the offender.

            (6) "Household member" means any person presently or formerly living in the same residence with the offender and who is involved or has been involved in a sexual or intimate relationship with the offender, or any child presently or formerly living in the same residence with the offender, or any child of the offender regardless of where the child resides.

            (7) "Review" means an examination or re-examination of information regarding a deceased person from relevant agencies, professionals, healthcare providers, or other sources.

            Acts 2021, No. 320, §2, See Act.