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Benefits include visitation rights in hospitals and correctional facilities equal to those given to a spouse. A domestic partner, who is also the parent or legal guardian of a child, may file a form at or send a letter to the child's school to indicate that the parent's domestic partner shall have access to the child's records.
Signed into federal law on September 13, 1994 by President Bill Clinton, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) established domestic violence as "'criminal behavior' and a national crime problem, created federal law which "revised and expanded protections for women against violent crime," established grant programs for "state and local ...
In some states or jurisdictions, reproductive healthcare workers and employees of agencies that assist survivors of domestic violence or stalking are also eligible. [2] [3] Survivors usually apply through a state's Secretary of State office. Once a survivor is admitted to the program, they will receive a PO box or other address that will ...
Kentucky has 15 programs supporting survivors of domestic violence. Also available 24/7 are the National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or the National Domestic Violence ...
Details of the domestic violence case were revealed in a preliminary hearing on Jan. 3, when his case was ultimately sent to the grand jury, court records state. The grand jury declined to indict ...
A Harrison County man who bought a gun three days after a DVO was issued against him has had a federal charge dropped.
The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) is a United States law, first authorized as part of the Child Abuse Amendments of 1984 (PL 98–457), that provides federal funding to help victims of domestic violence and their dependent children by providing shelter and related help, offering violence prevention programs, and improving how service agencies work together in communities.
Jeremy Schraufnagel, 49, went to the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office at about 1:10 p.m. Monday and told Sheriff Greg Motley that he wanted to talk with him about a “domestic situation ...