It can also provide you with witnesses if
your spouse becomes violent.
Not exact matches
It is important to file a request for emergency protective order if you fear that your abusive
spouse may
become violent or dangerous when you vocalize your decision to leave.
In other words, a
spouse who is otherwise entitled to spousal support after the dissolution of a marriage will not
become disentitled because he or she was
violent, or because it is later discovered that he or she had an extra-marital affair during the marriage.
There is also marriage education for those hit by infidelity (the Beyond Affairs Network), those whose
spouse wants out (Divorce Busting ®), and those whose marriage has
become violent or threatening (Love without Hurt).
If your
spouse was not previously
violent but
becomes violent during your divorce, your attorney may file a motion for a protective order at any phase during the divorce litigation.
When Johnston suggests that «this
violent separation - related behavior can
become the crucible within which a negative reconstruction of the identity of the...
spouse is made, casting a long shadow over the postdivorce relationship of these couples,» [FN41] she risks discrediting the
spouse whose new understanding of the relationship is now more reality based after an earlier period in which her commitment to the relationship led her to minimize or deny the abuse or to take inappropriate responsibility for it.
Men might not react by
becoming physically
violent, but they share fantasies about hurting their
spouse's affair partner.