The article explains that traditional domestic abuse laws focus on visible violence, missing coercive control—psychological ...

HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — Mica Miller’s family — who helped inspire a statewide coercive control bill — is hopeful after a second one was recently pre-filed. Police say Mica died by suicide in April ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. COLUMBIA, S.C. (WBTW) — An Horry County lawmaker has introduced a coercive control bill in the South Carolina Senate nearly one ...

Jane* was the breadwinner of the family, but her husband obsessively monitored their finances. Every week, he made her present a ledger of their income and expenses. If something was not to his liking ...

Labour MP Ruth Jones will put forward a Bill on Tuesday calling for pets to be recognised in domestic molestation orders as research shows abusers manipulate their victims' love for animals ...

About a month ago, I blogged about the first reported Appellate Division decision since the Domestic Violence statute was amended, to include consideration of coercive control when considering the ...

This past October, domestic violence month, was also a time to recognize changes to the legal definition of domestic violence. This year's statutory progress included coercive control in intimate ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WSPA) – A bill in the state house would amend South Carolina law to create a new criminal offense, known as “coercive control,” while also broadening who qualifies as a household ...

There's no shortage of discussion over the impending New York trial of rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs. One phrase you won't hear during the legal process? "Coercive control." Combs was arrested in ...