Violence as a social phenomenon is in all its forms part of human society since the earliest beginnings. Relation regarding to violence has changed with regard to the level of society development. Today is the extent of tolerance toward violence low. The society that we are part of is aware, that the family as a fundamental social unity, has not unfortunately been spared from this devious social phenomenon. Individuals should feel secure, loved, and safe in their family surroundings, but sometimes, in contrary, they are exposed to violence within their families. Accordingly, today's international and European legal systems pay close attention to the prevention and sanctioning of domestic violence. The beginnings of prevention and sanctioning of domestic violence in the Republic of Croatia are linked to the Family Law of 1998. Family violence began to be more systematically followed, and Croatian society became more vulnerable and less tolerant of this deviant social phenomenon and the creation of a separate Law of Protection from Domestic Violence started. The specificity of the Croatian judiciary system is the existence of criminal and misdemeanor provisions of law regulating the area of prevention and sanctioning of domestic violence. This specificity pointed to the need of improval of the Criminal and Misdemeanor Act and the Law on Protection from Domestic Violence. The intention was to avoid the possibility that a perpetrator of family violence can be sentenced for both, a criminal offense and a misdemeanor. The above-mentioned Law on Protection from Domestic Violence, which was passed for the first time in 2003, so far has been amended several times. The current Law on Protection from Domestic Violence entered into force on 1 January 2018. The Republic of Croatia as a full member of the European Union has incorporated certain provisions of the Victims Rights Directive and the Istanbul Convention into its legislation, while the fulfillment of part of the obligations is still to be embedded into both, the Croatian judiciary and the Croatian society. Applying a new law to practice will show whether it can respond to the challenges of modern times and Croatian society.