Domestic violence occurs when spouses, ex-spouses, relatives or anyone else who lives or has lived together in the same dwelling as a family unit, or any persons who are parents of a child in common, commit an act of domestic violence against the other. An act of domestic violence may be an assault, battery, sexual assault, sexual battery, stalking, kidnapping, false imprisonment, or any other criminal offense resulting in injury or death, or the person against whom domestic violence has been perpetrated has a reasonable cause to believe that he or she is in imminent danger of becoming a victim of an act of domestic violence and it appears tot the court that an immediate and present danger of domestic violence exists.