Understanding Stalking: Information and Action Items
For National Stalking Awareness Month, we define stalking and provide information about laws and some steps you can take to protect yourself.
Taking Control: Your Legal Rights When Someone Has Your Intimate Images
If someone you were intimate with has private photos of you and you’re concerned they’ll be shared, here are some steps you can take to protect yourself.
Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit: A Tool for Abuse Victims
Born out of the Stacy Peterson Case, the The Evidentiary Abuse Affidavit is an app created for victims of domestic violence to insure that the victim’s words about her fears and previous violence will not disappear if she does.
Why Your Brain Goes ‘Off-line’ From Narcissistic Abuse
Survivors of narcissistic abuse may experience challenges with executive functioning, requiring intensive stabilization techniques to handle triggering in and out of court
Recovering After a Hearing or Trial
Here are some things you can do before and after your hearing or trial to minimize and recover from stress.
Shocked by Judges’ Failures to Recuse?
Can judges determine their own impartiality or that of their colleagues? Are we expecting too much from them?
Family Law Attorney Discusses Legal Abuse
Family Law Attorney Discusses Legal Abuse by Sherri L. Renner, J.D. “The difference is in the intentions and the motives of the party that is perpetrating what we are calling abuse.” In this third video of our four-video series on Legal Abuse as an Extension of Domestic Abuse, veteran family law attorney Victoria Vilchez discusses […]
Writing While Stressed
by Sherri L. Renner, J.D. July 29, 2020 “Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson A member of our Pro Se Support group on Facebook recently took some steps toward achieving greater protection of her children. Those steps included drafting some papers that she will file with […]
Legal Abuse from a Clinical Perspective
by Sherri L. Renner, J.D. October 2014; updated March 2015 “Courtrooms are the perfect platforms for abusers to maintain contact with their victims,” reports Sandra Brown, MA, CEO of the Institute for Relational Harm Reduction and Public Pathology Education. In this video, which is the second in a series of four, Ms. Brown shares her […]
“Legal Abuse” Introduction
by Sherri L. Renner, J.D. October 2014; updated March 2015 Legal abuse can be an unexpected and sometimes tragic extension of domestic or intimate partner abuse. It is important for everyone in the family courts to understand, including litigants, judges, and evaluative professionals. This is the first of a four-video series. In October 2014, we […]
