This Act adds the following acts against a person's companion animal or service animal to the definition of abuse for protection from abuse proceedings:
1. Engaging in cruelty.
2. Inflicting physical injury.
3. Engaging in a course of alarming or distressing conduct.
In addition, this Act provides specific authority for the Court to include provisions in a protection from abuse order that grant a petitioner exclusive care, custody, or control of a companion animal and order a petitioner to stay away from the companion animal.
This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.

Statutes affected:
Original Text: 10.1041, 10.1045
Session Law: 10.1041, 10.1045