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Opening A Door To Help: Legal Services Programs' Key Role In Representing Battered Immigrant Women And Child, Leslye Orloff, Amanda Baran, Laura A. Martinez-Mcintoh, Jennifer Rose
Opening A Door To Help: Legal Services Programs' Key Role In Representing Battered Immigrant Women And Child, Leslye Orloff, Amanda Baran, Laura A. Martinez-Mcintoh, Jennifer Rose
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Mariella Batista approached the family court building in Riverside, California, 9- year-old son in tow, ready for her hearing. Her family law attorney, who had little domestic violence experience, had no time to meet with Mariella before the court date and arranged to meet her outside the courthouse before the hearing. Mariella, a Cuban immigrant, had a history of years of abuse at the hands of her partner and was attempting to gain control of her life by instituting legal action to gain custody of her son. Suddenly her estranged partner approached her and grabbed the boy. In fear, Mariella …
Engaging With The State: The Growing Reliance On Lawyers And Judges To Protect Battered Women, Jane C. Murphy
Engaging With The State: The Growing Reliance On Lawyers And Judges To Protect Battered Women, Jane C. Murphy
All Faculty Scholarship
The passage of the federal Violence Against Women Act of 2000 (“VAWA II”) marked an important milestone in the evolution of the domestic violence movement. VAWA II created, among other things, a complex system for state and federal funding in all fifty states to provide civil legal assistance to battered women. Its passage completed a process that began in the early 1980s when domestic violence advocates shifted their focus from grass roots efforts to help battered women and their children leave abusive partners to building alliances with government and advocating for legal remedies to assist battered women. This paper looks …
Theories Of Domestic Violence In The African Context, Cynthia Grant Bowman
Theories Of Domestic Violence In The African Context, Cynthia Grant Bowman
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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The "Pitiless Double Abuse" Of Battered Mothers, Justine A. Dunlap
The "Pitiless Double Abuse" Of Battered Mothers, Justine A. Dunlap
Faculty Publications
Mothers are expected to do and be all for their children, and those who fall short are criticized. Elizabeth Schneider makes this unassailable assertion in her book Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking. In the chapter entitled Motherhood and Battering, Schneider argues that society reserves its greatest opprobrium for mothers who harm their children or who are perceived to stand idly by while other harm their children. As Schneider demonstrates, women who fail to protect their children, even if they attempt to do so, can be legally liable and soundly condemned. This ill-conceived accountability is most likely to occur …
Addressing Domestic Violence Through A Strategy Of Economic Rights, Donna Coker
Addressing Domestic Violence Through A Strategy Of Economic Rights, Donna Coker
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Custody And Visitation: Considerations For Every Attorney Retained By A Survivor Of Domestic Violence, Caitlin Glass, Tamara Kuennen, Sharon Lopez
Custody And Visitation: Considerations For Every Attorney Retained By A Survivor Of Domestic Violence, Caitlin Glass, Tamara Kuennen, Sharon Lopez
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
Legal representation is a critical tool for survivors of domestic violence to live free from their battering partners. Representation in custody and visitation matters-- integral issues in the separation context--is particularly consequential for survivors. First, studies of custody litigation indicate that fathers who battered the mothers of their children are twice as likely to seek sole physical custody as are nonviolent fathers. Batterers are as likely as nonbattering fathers to prevail. Since the 1970s, fathers in general have been at a marked advantage in custody disputes. Second, custody and visitation claims involve a complex array of legal issues, laws, practices, …