(g)
Directing the respondent to provide support to the woman and/or her child if entitled to legal
support. Notwithstanding other laws to the contrary, the court shall order an appropriate
percentage of the income or salary of the respondent to be withheld regularly by the respondent's
employer and for the same to be automatically remitted directly to the woman. Failure to remit
and/or withhold or any delay in the remittance of support to the woman and/or her child without
justifiable cause shall render the respondent or his employer liable for indirect contempt of court;
(h) Prohibition of the respondent from any use or possession of any firearm or deadly weapon and
order him to surrender the same to the court for appropriate disposition by the court, including
revocation of license and disqualification to apply for any license to use or possess a firearm. If the
offender is a law enforcement agent, the court shall order the offender to surrender his firearm
and shall direct the appropriate authority to investigate on the offender and take appropriate
action on the matter;
(i)
Restitution for actual damages caused by the violence inflicted, including, but not limited to,
property damage, medical expenses, childcare expenses and loss of income;
(j)
Directing the DSWD or any appropriate agency to provide petitioner temporary shelter and other
social services that the petitioner may need; and
(k)
Provision of such other forms of relief as the court deems necessary to protect and provide for the
safety of the petitioner and any designated family or household member, provided petitioner and
any designated family or household member consents to such relief.
Any of the reliefs provided under this section shall be granted even in the absence of a decree of legal separation or
annulment or declaration of absolute nullity of marriage.
The issuance of a BPO or the pendency of an application for BPO shall not preclude a petitioner from applying for, or
the court from granting a TPO or PPO.
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Defined in Section 3(a) of Rep. Act No. 9262, as follows:
Section. 3. Definition of Terms. - As used in this Act, (a) "Violence against women and their children" refers to any act
or a series of acts committed by any person against a woman who is his wife, former wife, or against a woman with
whom the person has or had a sexual or dating relationship, or with whom he has a common child, or against her
child whether legitimate or illegitimate, within or without the family abode, which result in or is likely to result in
physical, sexual, psychological harm or suffering, or economic abuse including threats of such acts, battery, assault,
coercion, harassment or arbitrary deprivation of liberty. It includes, but is not limited to, the following acts:
A.
"Physical violence" refers to acts that include bodily or physical harm;
B.
"Sexual violence" refers to an act which is sexual in nature, committed against a woman or her
child. It includes, but is not limited to:
a)
rape, sexual harassment, acts of lasciviousness, treating a woman or her child as a sex object,
making demeaning and sexually suggestive remarks, physically attacking the sexual parts of the
victim's body, forcing her/him to watch obscene publications and indecent shows or forcing the
woman or her child to do indecent acts and/or make films thereof, forcing the wife and
mistress/lover to live in the conjugal home or sleep together in the same room with the abuser;
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