When your husband decides to take your kids so you can’t see them. When he throws all your stuff out on the front lawn. When he wakes you up at night so you will be too tired to go to work the next morning. When he threatens to call immigration to deport you. When he harasses you at work in hopes of getting you fired. When he takes your paycheck and decides how he will spend it.
A very good friend of mine went through all of this in the last few months. We tried everything we could to help her. We put her up in a hotel. We called the police. We really had no recourse to help her. When he called Social Services to say she wasn’t a good mother and that they should come and get the kids… that was the final straw. We hired a lawyer.
From the first day… her life was better since we had a lawyer on her side. A restrainer order was put in place the very day we called the lawyer. Her husband was no longer allowed near the house. This came as quite a shock to him when the police came and ordered him off the property. When he tried to harass her at work, we called the police and with the restraining order in place, he was told he would be sighted with trespassing if he came to her work again.
And the help didn’t stop there. He was ordered to pay child support. The house and custody of the kids was given to my friend. As the lawyer took step after step, it became quite obvious that this was not going to turn out good for my friend’s husband. He had a change of heart all too quickly. He was helpful and kind. He spoke nicely to my friend and spoke nicely about her to others. It is hard to believe but their marriage was saved. They both loved each other, but fell into a pattern of abuse. He sees more clearly now and I firmly believe this would not have happened without hiring a lawyer. After everything we tried, it was the lawyer that got his attention.
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