The domestic violence practice at ADZ Law, LLP is holistic and designed to empower our clients. Our domestic violence attorneys educate our clients and explain available options that allow them to enjoy their basic human right of living free from abuse. When a client is not safe, we can help secure a restraining order to protect the client and their children.
Disentangling from an abuser can be complicated and time consuming, but it is not impossible. Collectively, the domestic violence attorneys of ADZ Law have assisted hundreds of domestic violence survivors and their children break free from abusive relationships and navigate the seemingly insurmountable hurdles to independence and safety, including restraining orders.
We have extensive experience addressing the power dynamics in these types of relationships, educating the courts, mediators, law enforcement, and other relevant third parties, and supporting clients through the myriad of co-occurring mental health, child abuse, and substance abuse issues that arise in domestic violence cases.
Understanding Domestic Violence
Domestic or dating violence or abuse is a pattern of behavior in an intimate relationship in which one partner seeks power and control over another through intimidation, coercion, violence, or the threat of violence. Domestic violence is not just physical abuse. The abuse may be emotional, mental, verbal, physical, sexual, spiritual, or economic. The abuse may also become more frequent and severe over time or settle into a predictable routine.
Domestic violence can impact one’s job, education, housing, children, parenting, and relationships with family and friends. And because an abuser’s exertion of power and control can seep into so many parts of daily life, victims may normalize the behavior and not self-identify as victims of abuse.
It is important to understand that domestic or dating violence or abuse can happen to anyone, including teens and adults in gay, lesbian, or heterosexual relationships. It can happen regardless of marital status, ethnicity or race, national origin, or socioeconomic background. The attorneys at ADZ Law are committed to social justice and empowering survivors of domestic violence. Contact us today to learn more about domestic violence, your options, and your rights.
Our Domestic Violence Legal Services
Unlike other law firms, ADZ law provides a holistic approach, understanding the intersection between domestic violence, dissolution, criminal, and civil litigation issues. Our domestic violence attorneys provide legal assistance in obtaining restraining orders, divorces, support orders, safe custody, and visitation orders. We also pursue financial recovery for clients in civil actions against perpetrators of abuse.
Our ADZ Law domestic violence attorneys help survivors with: