Domestic Violence Women Legal Issues

• The Battered Mothers' Testimony Project: A Human Rights Report on Child Custody & Domestic Violence in Massachusetts. - Published by the Women's Rights Network, Wellesley Centers for Women. A human rights report on child custody and domestic violence issues
• Battered Women and Their Children - Kathleen Waits, Houston Law Review, 1998, Symposium: Domestic Violence and the Health Care System - A personal story of one battered woman's experience in the family court system.
• Battered Women's Justice Project - The Battered Women's Justice Project (BWJP) is a collaborative effort of three nationally respected organizations that have pioneered innovative civil and criminal justice responses to domestic violence. Maintains resource library of materials related to domestic violence and the justice system.
• Domestic Violence Medical Records - An essay from the Harvard School on Public Health discussing the importance of medical records in domestic violence legal cases.
• Domestic Violence Court Builds on Drug Court Model - Join Together Organization news article
• Domestic Violence Home Page - The American Bar Association's web site for domestic violence issues. Information for attorneys and survivors. Contains information on protecting privacy for survivors during and after divorce.
• Domestic Violence Notepad: A listing of resources - Provides links to articles, legal help, resources to help victims of domestic violence.
• Domestic Violence Organizations Online: Risks, Ethical Dilemmas, and Liability Issues - Violence Against Women Online Resources - University of Michigan
• Domestic Violence Safety Plan - Safety tips for victims of domestic violence from the American Bar Association. Includes information in Spanish.
• Early Identification of Risk Factors for Parental Abduction OJJDP Publications - General Resources - Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
• How to Write a Letter to the Judge for Victims of Rape, Domestic Violence, and Child Abuse - Women's Justice Center
• Innocent Spouse Tax Relief - Information from the IRS on help for spouses who have tax liability because of erroneous filing by a partner. Batterers may threaten to use legal issues such as tax liability against partners to keep them from leaving or requesting equitable child support. The IRS offers help with this filing option. Spouses in danger can be protected from batterers' learning their current address or other identifying information. Consult IRS offices for information.
• National Alliance for Family Court Justice - The National Alliance For Family Court Justice, founded in 1993 by Elisabeth Richards of Annandale,Virginia, is an international group of volunteers dedicated to addressing system failure in the courts and social services resulting in retaliation against non-offending parents who complain of family abuse, especially mothers of children who disclose sexual abuse.
• Women's Law Initiative - In this website, you will find state-by-state domestic violence legal and procedural information.
• Validity and Use of Evidence Concerning Battering and Its Effects in Criminal Trials - Report to Congress on battered women's syndrome. Published jointly by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Mental Health. (PDF Document) (May, 1996)