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Florida Domestic Relations Code Section 741.401 - Marriage; Domestic Violence - Legislative findings; purpose.

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Title XLIII   DOMESTIC RELATIONS

Chapter 741   MARRIAGE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

741.401  Legislative findings; purpose.--The Legislature finds that persons attempting to escape from actual or threatened domestic violence frequently establish new addresses in order to prevent their assailants or probable assailants from finding them. The purpose of ss. 741.401-741.409 is to enable state and local agencies to respond to requests for public records without disclosing the location of a victim of domestic violence, to enable interagency cooperation with the Attorney General in providing address confidentiality for victims of domestic violence, and to enable state and local agencies to accept a program participant's use of an address designated by the Attorney General as a substitute mailing address.

History.--s. 1, ch. 98-404.

Last modified: November 21, 2006