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Domestic Violence Sites on the Worldwide Web
By Leslie Ellen Shear
Any search engine will turn up thousands of Domestic Violence sites on the internet. I spent many hours culling some of the best. These web sites represent many different perspectives and resources on domestic violence. (Please note that sites appear, disappear, change or move to new locations regularly. If the link doesn’t work, try searching for a key word or phrase from the description.) An evening spent browsing these sites will change the way you approach domestic violence cases.
If you want to increase your depth of knowledge, work your way through the accompanying Domestic Violence Bibliography.
How can family lawyers use these web sites?
- Expand your own sophistication and expertise about family violence.
- Improve the Domestic Violence screening process you use in your initial interviews.
- Understand the impact of domestic violence on children (long and short term).
- Learn what facts are important to present to the Court and why.
- Implications of different patterns of domestic violence.
- Explain the impact of domestic violence on victim's employment and earnings and get your client more support.
- Develop the custody plan that meshes with the facts.
- Ask a Court to take judicial notice of important information.
- Cite these references in Memoranda of Points and Authorities.
- Educate your expert.
- Find resources for your client.
- Find an effective treatment program.
- Build your library.
- Draft a detailed supervised visitation order.
- Do some rabble-rousing to get services in our community which are offered elsewhere.
- Donate your unused cell phones and save a victim’s life.
- Learn about how domestic violence impacts special issues and populations.
- Keep a client alive.
- Prepare a competent defense to false or inflated allegations.
- Write a great appellate brief.