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With No Place To Turn: Improving Legal Advocacy For Battered Immigrant Women, Leslye E. Orloff, Deeana Jang, Catherine F. Klein
With No Place To Turn: Improving Legal Advocacy For Battered Immigrant Women, Leslye E. Orloff, Deeana Jang, Catherine F. Klein
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This article explains some of the unique problems faced by battered immigrant women and offers creative solutions for family lawyers and battered women advocates who have immigrant or refugee clientele. Because battered immigrant women who seek to flee violence need assistance with both family law and immigration law matters, we will discuss both areas and highlight their interrelationship.
Full Faith And Credit: Interstate Enforcement Of Protection Orders Under The Violence Against Women Act Of 1994, Catherine F. Klein
Full Faith And Credit: Interstate Enforcement Of Protection Orders Under The Violence Against Women Act Of 1994, Catherine F. Klein
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This article focuses on Title II, Safe Homes for Women, specifically, interstate enforcement of protection orders. Prior to the enactment of VAWA, the majority of states did not afford full faith and credit to protection orders issued in sister states! This was a serious breach in the protection afforded victims of domestic violence. Without full faith and credit statutes, a state only has the power to protect victims of domestic violence within its boundaries, limiting the protection afforded to victims if they are forced to move or flee to another state.
Prior to the VAWA, in order to receive protection …
Representing A Victim Of Domestic Violence, Catherine F. Klein, Leslye E. Orloff
Representing A Victim Of Domestic Violence, Catherine F. Klein, Leslye E. Orloff
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