Moreover, the court usually issues a preliminary temporary order of protection to the battered spouse on the very first day that the litigant comes to court.

Seventy-five percent of the cases of child abuse and 80 percent of the battered spouses in our criminal justice system involve alcohol.

Leaving an abusive husband makes a battered spouse a stronger and better person than if she had been happily married all along.

Her case, after all, is hardly sensational, except that it represents a dramatic response to the abuse that many battered spouses endure.

Change a few words in the sidekick episode, put it on Lifetime and you have a somber movie about battered spouses.

"So I guess what happens next is that you guys tell me I don't exactly fit the profile of the typical battered spouse."

She earlier said she felt like "a battered spouse" in negotiations with Likud.

By itself, a divorce doesn't make a woman safer, of course, and even raising the issue tends to shift blame to the battered spouse.

Another retained provision allows battered immigrant spouses to receive public assistance.

The excerpts included an assertion by Mr. Simpson that he was a battered spouse.