Quick Hit: NY domestic violence law to cover dating relationships
This is great news:
The new law would make it possible for people in dating relationships, heterosexual or gay, to seek protection from abusers in family court. As it stands, New York has one of the narrowest domestic violence laws in the country, allowing for civil protection orders only against spouses or former spouses, blood relations or the other parent of an abused person's child.
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The article said that the two need not have been sexually intimate. How can a dating relationship be proven?
Good to hear. I mean, as long as you can prove abuse, shouldn't the law extend to you no matter what the nature of the relationship? Abuse is abuse, dating, married, or otherwise.