Over the past several years, the National NOW Family Law Advisory Committee has been compiling materials on a range of issues that women face in divorce and child custody cases. The information is of special interest to women involved in difficult cases where battering and/or child sexual or physical abuse has been involved. These materials are now posted on the NOW Foundation website at http://www.nowfoundation. org/issues/family.
The web page is intended to provide help to both protective mothers and their lawyers and to expose a trend where abusive parents use the courts to harass, punish and impoverish their former spouses and children.In many cases, NOW chapters and the NOW Foundation ...