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10 Oct '16To the average Law & Order fan, it might look like a psychiatric diagnosis is a commonly-used defense tactic. But the average fan doesn’t realize that the common use of diagnoses in court occurs with criminal or disability law—not family law. For example, an insanity defense in criminal court almost always requires proof of […]
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Family law courts across the country are familiar with the argument that men, far more than women, are abusive and “batterers.” A common ex parte petition calls for the husband and father to have his visitation rights suspended or supervised, and ordered to attend a batterer’s class on domestic violence. The presence of family violence […]
