An interstate move in 2009 presented both a challenge (gaining admission to another bar) and an opportunity: to work for one year as a court watch program coordinator in the Domestic Violence Division in the Circuit Court of Cook County, in Chicago.
Abusers often go to extremes to prevent the victim from leaving. One study found in interviews with men who have killed their partners that either threats of separation by their partner or actual separations were most often the precipitating events that lead to the murder.
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