Family Violence Adult Protection Act of 1990

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Family Violence Adult Protection Act of 1990 - Title I: Amendments to Family Violence Prevention and Services Act - Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to bar the making of payments from allotments under such Act by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to States which fail to provide certain procedural protections for victims of family violence. Includes among such protections provisions with regard to: (1) the availability of a temporary order of relief (providing that the victim may, through a civil hearing, obtain temporary relief from acts of family violence; authorizing the court to conduct ex parte proceedings and to order appropriate relief; and requiring clerks of the court, upon request and without charge, to advise victims of family violence on completing pleadings and other documents necessary to file a petition for relief or a motion on violation of an order); (2) responses of law enforcement officers (requiring responding officers to treat allegations of family violence in the same manner as if the alleged violence had occurred between unacquainted individuals; requiring an immediate response where the victim states that physical injury is immi…