Improving the family court response to custody cases and parenting decisions involving domestic violence so that resulting parenting arrangements protect the emotional and physical well-being of victimized parents and their children.
The court gathered information from survivors and professionals to identify needs and gaps that should be addressed by the project. Surveys and roundtables were used to inform the...Read More
Challenges identified by the project team included a lack of accurate identification of domestic violence by family court practitioners and survivors’ lack of understanding and information regarding family...Read More
The Delaware team decided to gather as much information as possible about the court’s current operations, to determine where changes were most needed and how best to improve...Read More
Cook County differs from the other FCEP sites in that the court participating in the project is not a family court but a domestic violence court, so its...Read More
One challenge identified by the team was a gap in the data available about what relief was requested and provided in protection orders, including child-related relief. To fill...Read More
Native Americans experience domestic violence at higher rates than any other group in the United States, yet the Hennepin County team found that very few accessed the relief...Read More