Blog Posts in Domestic Violence

Some people confuse domestic violence cases with civil harassment cases, but there is a difference between the two. When a person annoys, harasses, injures, or threatens another person, it can be ...

An emergency custody order is a request for immediate child custody without providing notice to the other party. Most requests for an emergency custody order are in regards to minor children. How Can ...

In October 1987, the first Domestic Violence Awareness Month was observed. That same year the first national toll-free hotline was begun. In 1989 the first Domestic Violence Awareness Month ...

North Carolina law defines domestic abuse as attempting to cause or intentionally causing bodily injury. Domestic violence can also involve placing the person in fear of imminent serious bodily injury ...

For a comprehensive, in depth and eye-opening review of laws across the United States dealing with the surrender of firearms in domestic violence cases, as well as the political jockeying that ...

In what is being hailed as a victory for the Obama administration, the House of Representatives passed the Senate version of an extension to the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 on a vote of 286 to ...