IRELAND speaks much more openly now about coercive control and domestic abuse than it once did. Yet some of the most difficult experiences described by survivors continue to happen behind closed doors ...

The initiative, titled Right to Transparency, is focused on how women and children experience the family courts after leaving abusive relationships, particularly in cases involving coercive control, ...

Co-authored by Lisa Aronson Fontes and Julie Nee. No divorce is fun, but most are reasonably amicable. Divorcing a domestic abuser is another story altogether. After separation, abusers take ...

Regina Rooney, programming director for the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence, in 2021. Credit: Fred J. Field / The Maine Monitor This story appears as part of a collaboration to strengthen ...

The article explains that traditional domestic abuse laws focus on visible violence, missing coercive control—psychological and financial abuse that leaves no scars but is equally harmful. New York ...

The UK was the first country in the world to criminalise coercive control. So why are we still not paying attention to this insidious form of violence? We were in the smoking area, a place where ...

Family law reflects evolving societal norms, technology, and economic trends, and has recently undergone a critical shift in how it understands domestic abuse. No longer confined to physical violence, ...

OTTAWA — In a landmark decision, a majority on the Supreme Court ruled that victims of intimate partner violence can sue an ...

In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court of Canada has created a new tort of intimate partner violence that will allow people to sue for damages when they have been subject to abuse in a relationship ...

For too long, coercive control has been the "invisible" reality of domestic abuse, leaving thousands of Australian women without clear legal recognition of their experiences. While NSW and Queensland ...