---
kind: "section"
citation: "32 C.F.R. § 635.18"
title: "32"
number: "635.18"
heading: "Domestic violence."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/32/635.18"
---

# §635.18. Domestic violence.

- (a) Responding to incidents of domestic violence requires a coordinated effort by LE, medical, and social work personnel, to include sharing information and records as permitted by law and regulation. AR 608-18, Chapter 3, contains additional information about domestic violence and protective orders. AR 608-18, Glossary, Section II refers to domestic violence as including the use, attempted use, or threatened use of force or violence against a person or a violation of a lawful order issued for the protection of a person, who is:
  - (1) A current or former spouse;
  - (2) A person with whom the abuser shares a child in common; or
  - (3) **A current or former intimate partner with whom the abuser shares or has shared a common domicile.**
- (b) All domestic violence incidents will be reported to the local installation PMO/DES.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 28 U.S.C. 534, 42 U.S.C. 10601, 18 U.S.C. 922, 10 U.S.C. 1562, 10 U.S.C. Chap. 47, 42 U.S.C. 16901 et seq., 10 U.S.C. 1565, 42 U.S.C. 14135a.

### Source

Source: 80 FR 28549, May 19, 2015, unless otherwise noted.