Does Your Partner...
-- Keep track of you all the time?
--Accuse you of being unfaithful?
-- Try to keep you from family and friends?
--Prevent you from working and/or going to school?
--Criticize, belittle or humiliate you?
--Anger easily while drinking? Use drugs?
--Hit, slap, or punch you, your children, or your pets? Try to strangle you?
--Act jealous or possessive?
--Yell or call you names?
--Blame others for problems or mistakes?
--Threaten you with a weapon or gun?
--Force you to have sex against your will?
--Accuse you of being equally abusive?
You have legal rights.
1. You may ask for a criminal complaint with the District Attorney General (D.A.)
2. You may request and be granted an Order of Protection:
--to prevent the abuser from committing further abuse
--to require the abuser to leave your household
--to prevent the abuser from harassing, stalking, or contacting you
--to give you custody of or visitation with your minor child(ren)
--to require the abuser to pay money to support you and minor children if the abuser has legal obligation to do so, after the court hearing