{"id":1194,"date":"2016-02-03T15:56:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T20:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/events.lindabury.com\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2019-12-23T17:38:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T22:38:22","slug":"examining-harassment-new-jerseys-prevention-domestic-violence-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/examining-harassment-new-jerseys-prevention-domestic-violence-act.html","title":{"rendered":"Examining Harassment Under New Jersey\u2019s Prevention of Domestic Violence Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Examining Harassment Under the PDVA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When does \u2018annoying\u2019 or \u2018alarming\u2019 behavior warrant protection?<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half of the 65,000 domestic violence\u00a0complaints reported in New Jersey\u00a0each year are based on claims of \u201charassment.\u201d\u00a0Our judicial system expends extensive\u00a0time and effort, case by case, to determine which\u00a0of those claims qualify as true domestic violence\u00a0under the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act\u00a0(PDVA). Given the volume of allegations made\u00a0in the name of harassment, the courts have cautioned\u00a0litigants against wasting resources and\u00a0trivializing the plight of genuine victims by\u00a0asserting frivolous harassment claims.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/examining-harassment-new-jerseys-prevention-domestic-violence-act.html\"  title=\"Continue Reading Examining Harassment Under New Jersey\u2019s Prevention of Domestic Violence Act\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When do certain behaviors warrant protection under NJ\u2019s Domestic Violence Act?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[246,65,89],"tags":[],"coauthors":[139],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divorce-family-law-insights","category-insights","category-lindabury"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Examining Harassment Under New Jersey\u2019s Prevention of Domestic Violence Act &#8212; February 3, 2016 &#8212; Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook &amp; Cooper, P.C. 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