The best advice is to stay in the house until after you discuss the matter with a lawyer unless
your spouse is violent.
Therefore, if
your spouse is violent, you must take all steps necessary to protect your safety and the safety of your children.
If
your spouse is violent, you can request that the Court grant you exclusive possession of the family home.
For example, if a person has a spouse where one
spouse is violent and abusive to the other spouse, that could be a ground for divorce.
Not exact matches
Employers must take every precaution reasonable to protect workers who might
be facing violence, such as from a potentially
violent spouse or stalker.
No you don't have ANY reason to divorce your
spouse (separation from a
violent individual
is a different issue but not an excuse to divorce — sorry but we know this
is what Jesus meant because his discipled replied; «(if divorce
is not an option) then surely it
is better not to marry!»
Data generated by these initiatives indicate that while some violence
is unexpected and isolated, the majority of
violent acts experienced by children
is perpetrated by people who
are part of their lives: parents, schoolmates, teachers, employers, boyfriends or girlfriends,
spouses and partners.
- Other misconduct which would need to
be extreme to
be taken into account — examples from past cases
are murder, sexual abuse of grandchildren or
violent assault to the extent of disabling the
spouse.
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.
I
am not a vulnerable
spouse living in a
violent relationship.
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.
If you
are married or in a civil partnership, and you can show the court that your
spouse / civil partner
is violent in any way towards you or the children, you can get a barring or safety order against them no matter how long you have lived together and even if they own most or all of the house.
Were unhappy
spouses who later divorced or separated more likely to
be victims of high conflict or
violent marriages than those who stayed married?
The secret to stopping a
violent spouse is to keep your sympathy for yourself and your marriage until he deals with his problem.
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.
Caregivers
were asked how many times in the past 3 months a
spouse or partner had engaged in
violent behavior, including kicking, biting, choking, hitting with a fist or object, threatening with a knife or gun, using a knife or gun, or beating her up.
There
are many personal (e.g. mother's depression) and interpersonal (e.g.
violent relationship with
spouse) factors that may make it more difficult for the caregiver to respond to the infant in a sensitive and emotionally responsive fashion.
Your
spouse has not committed or threatened any
violent acts toward you since the protection order
was issued.
This phenomenon
is characterized by the tendency of one
spouse to cast the other in a vilified image, for example, «He
's a weak,
violent drunk,» or, She
's a two - faced, selfish, pathological liar who can't ever
be trusted.»
Not only
is childhood physical aggression a precursor of the physical and mental health problems that will
be visited on victims, but also aggressive children themselves
are at higher risk of alcohol and drug abuse, accidents,
violent crimes, depression, suicide attempts,
spouse abuse, and neglectful and abusive parenting.
Listen, don't get into a long argument about anything specific (like how much your
spouse drinks, or whether the last affair
was sexual or whether the last
violent episode
was more your fault), and repeat what you said before, in different words.
While that
is not a good idea if your
spouse is abusive,
violent, or can easily manipulate you, for most people, having even a semi-reasonable conversation with your
spouse can save you tens of thousands of dollars in your divorce.