| Can brother and sister business partners
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| | injury, serious bodily injury, rape,
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| who do not reside in the same home, and
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| | involuntary deviate sexual intercourse,
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| who have no relationship outside of work,
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| | sexual assault, statutory sexual assault,
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| seek Protection From Abuse orders against
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| | aggravated indecent assault, indecent
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| each other?
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| | assault or incest with or without a
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| An en banc panel of the Superior Court
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| | deadly weapon; (2) Placing another in
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| has inexplicably answered "yes" in Custer
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| | reasonable fear of imminent serious
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| v. Cochran, PICS Case No. 07-1501 (Pa.
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| | bodily injury;
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| Super. Sept. 25, 2007) Todd, J., Ford
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| | (3) The infliction of false imprisonment;
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| Elliott, P.J. concurring (23 pages),
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| | (4) Physically or sexually abusing minor
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| thereby overruling an identical 1996
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| | children;
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| case, which was dismissed for lack of
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| | (5) Knowingly engaging in a course of
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| jurisdiction.
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| | conduct or repeatedly committing acts
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| The Protection From Abuse Act is designed
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| | toward another person, including
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| to provide family or household members
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| | following the person, without proper
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| with a tool to secure court protection
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| | authority, under circumstances which
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| from acts of domestic abuse. Section 6102
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| | place the person in reasonable fear of
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| of the law provides the two key
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| | bodily injury ..."
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| definitions at issue in Custer:
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| | Section 6102 further defines "family or
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| Under the statute, "abuse" is defined as:
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| | household members" as "[s]pouses or
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| "The occurrence of one or more of the
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| | persons who have been spouses, persons
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| following acts between family or
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| | living as spouses or who have lived as
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| household members, sexual or intimate
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| | spouses, parents and children, other
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| partners or persons who share biological
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| | persons related by consanguinity or
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| parenthood:
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| | affinity, current or former sexual or
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| (1) Attempting to cause or intentionally,
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| | intimate partners or persons who share
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| knowingly or recklessly causing bodily
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| | biological parenthood.
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