Practice Area

Domestic Violence

What is domestic violence? It is a pattern of controlling behaviors – violence or threats of violence – that one person uses to establish power over an intimate partner in order to control that partner’s actions and activities. Domestic violence is not a disagreement, a marital spat, or an anger management problem. Domestic violence is abusive, disrespectful, and hurtful behaviors that one intimate partner chooses to use against the other partner.

Signs of Domestic Violence

You may be experiencing domestic violence if your partner is doing any of these or other unwanted behaviors:

Hurting you physically – slapping, hair pulling, strangling, hitting, kicking, grabbing, excessively squeezing or shaking, twisting your arms, burning you, or intentionally injuring you in any way

Using your children against you

Calling you names and hurting you emotionally

Harming your pets

Acting with extreme jealousy and possessiveness

Isolating you from family and friends

Threatening to commit suicide or to kill you

Controlling your money

Withholding medical help

Stalking you

Demanding sex or unwanted sex practices

Hiding assertive devices

Minimizing the destructive behavior

Threatening to "out" you if you are Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual or transgender

Controlling you with "that certain look in his eyes" or certain gestures

If you are a victim of abuse, you are never to blame. It is not your fault. All of the tactics above are abusive, and some may also constitute a crime under Florida Statutes in Domestic violence in Boca Raton.

We Are Here to Help

If you are a victim of domestic violence, contact Barbra Amron Weisberg, PA.