The Protection Battered Spouses Don’t Need is the title caption of a New York Times Op-Ed piece this week, online here. From the article by Radha Iyenga, a fellow in health policy research at Harvard, TWO decades ago, in an effort to curb domestic violence, states began passing “mandatory arrest” laws.Read More
Manning v. Willett, –S.W.3d – (Ky. App. 2007) Issue and Holding: Whether the district court erred in entering, sua sponte, an order for a mutual domestic violence order. The Court held yes, as the domestic violence statutes do not provide for mutual domestic violence orders under the factual scenario in the instant case.Read More
Randall v. Stewart, a to be published decision of the Kentucky Court of Appeals found here held that a girlfriend who did not live with her boyfriend could not obtain the protection of a domestic violence order against him. The digest:Read More
Domestic Violence Among Refugee and Immigrant Women is among the posts this week at the Family Law Prof Blog. It links to an audio of a National Public Radio broadcast by Meqdes Mesfin.Read More
S.L.T. v. R.J.C., 196 S.W.3d 530 (Ky.App. 2006) Issue and Holding: Whether the trial court erred in issuing a domestic violence order. The Court held no, the trial court did not err because the evidence established that domestic violence had occurred and may occur again.Read More
“What influences women when they are making child custody decisions that will bring them into future contact with a violent or controlling ex-husband? Fear, pragmatism, and the belief–sometimes reinforced in mandated divorce education classes–that their children will suffer if both parents are not in their lives, according to a University of Illinois study in the...Read More
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