Dear Rada, thank you for your posting. I am a lawyer/law teacher in Washington, DC and my clients face very similar experiences. More and more, abusive partners are using the protection order law and court system as yet another way to harass and humiliate the real victim by filing cross petitions for protection orders and/or contempt motions re visitation provisions of the woman's own protection order. Unfortunately, the court's are allowing this strategy to work. I have had many recent experiences that remind me that justice is a constant struggle. Judicial education and training is imperative, as well as having an effective way to monitor the court system. We need to collect and use these stories to help affect social change.
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