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 ...

Labour MP Ruth Jones will put forward a Bill on Tuesday calling for pets to be recognised in domestic molestation orders as ...

HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — Mica Miller’s family — who helped inspire a statewide coercive control bill — is hopeful after a second one was recently pre-filed. Police say Mica died by suicide in April ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. COLUMBIA, S.C. (WBTW) — An Horry County lawmaker has introduced a coercive control bill in the South Carolina Senate nearly one ...

The law expanding the domestic violence definition is named after women killed by their partners: Jennifer Farber Dulos and Jennifer Magnano.

Jane* was the breadwinner of the family, but her husband obsessively monitored their finances. Every week, he made her present a ledger of their income and expenses. If something was not to his liking ...

This past October, domestic violence month, was also a time to recognize changes to the legal definition of domestic violence. This year's statutory progress included coercive control in intimate ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WSPA) – A bill in the state house would amend South Carolina law to create a new criminal offense, known as “coercive control,” while also broadening who qualifies as a household ...