When I first began researching domestic abuse in 2020, 20 women had been killed in domestic homicides. Six years on, that ...

Hawaii has criminalized the concept while other states have incorporated it into family or civil court definitions of ...

Control varies relationships from mild, codependent control, to abusive to coercive control. Learn to identify the ...

Things were almost too good to be true when Lucy met her now ex-partner. But over the course of their relationship, she says ...

Coercive control and the severe harm it causes to those targeted by an intimate partner gets much-needed attention by new laws making it illegal in a few U.S. states. It’s now recognized that the ...

The state of New York has long been at the forefront of cultural and legal progress. Yet, for all of its claim to fame as the center of the world, New York has some antiquated divorce laws that need ...

It is long-standing law in Massachusetts that the best interests of a child govern custody disputes. Said another way, when parents cannot agree and the court has to make custody and parenting time ...

Coercive control is a pattern of abusive behaviours used to hurt, scare or isolate another person within an intimate partner relationship, in order to control them. It is recognised as a form of ...

Surrey Police said Sean Brady, of Sunbury-on-Thames, pleaded guilty on the first day of the trial A man has been jailed for more than two years for engaging in controlling and coercive behaviour and ...

When Stephanie* called the police to report coercive control, she says she was told it was "too hard too prove" and it was ...