Policy Glossary

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Domestic Violence

Any act of violence or abuse directed toward a family or household member. Family or household members include children, spouse, state registered domestic partner, persons who have a child in common regardless of whether they have been married or have lived together at any time, persons related by blood or marriage, and persons who have resided together in the past.

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Immediate Family

An Incarcerated individual's children, stepchildren, grandchildren, great grandchildren, parents, stepparents, grandparents, great grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, and a person legally married to or in a state registered domestic partnership with an incarcerated individual. "Immediate family" includes the immediate family of an incarcerated individual who was adopted as a child or an adult, but does not include an incarcerated individual adopted by another incarcerated individual (or the immediate family of the adopted or adopting individual).

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Spouse

Husband or wife as defined or recognized under state law for purposes of marriage in the state where the employee resides.

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