Violence in the family is a challenge to the protection of human rights, which has profound consequences for the victim of such an act, but also for the family as a whole, whether it is partners, children, the elderly or relatives. The legal aspects of domestic violence are the basis for regulating the phenomenon of domestic violence at the international and national level. The conventions of the Council of Europe and the United Nations are the legal framework for the protection of victims of violence and operate at the international level, while on the national level of the Republic of Croatia there are a number of laws and a large treasury of examples of judicial practice of the Supreme Court on which Croatian legislation relies when fighting violent behavior in the family. In the following chapters of the work, the most important characteristics of the concept of domestic violence are presented, then the concepts and basic purpose of the existing conventions and laws for the protection of domestic violence, and several examples of court decisions from the judicial practice of the Supreme Court are presented in order to gain insight into the reasons for the creation of legal sources that condemn every act of violence, and try to provide the victim with the most effective protection possible.