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144: Coercive and controlling behaviour: the latest from the Family Courts

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How to Get Legal Support in Family Law Disputes

It used to be the case that there needed to be evidence of physical assault before a court would look at allegations of domestic violence, as it then was. Now we have this sort of fog of war, this coersive and controlling behaviour which cannot be easily proved,. is at the issue absolutely. Laspa impacted greatly on the availability of public funding for victims of abuse, but also for alleged perpetrators. The alleged perpetrator situationis still not resolved. For the abused, they had to provide specific pieces of evidence in order to qualify for funding, on merits, g p letter, police referal injunction or other immediate evidence. As part of government cut backs, essentially only those on very basic universal

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